Howard University Grad’s Startup Connects Alums to HBCU Apparel

Posted By: How May I Help You NC on January 10, 2012

Clover McFadden grew up in Detroit, where she graduated from Renaissance High School before heading to Washington, D.C., to attend Howard University. She got her degree in chemistry and she planned to go into medicine. After graduating from Howard, she came back to Detroit to regroup.

Then a funny thing happened on the way to med school: She became an entrepreneur instead.

“I came home and both of my parents, who were retired, were starting their own businesses,” McFadden says. “I started working with their startups and I loved being responsible for the ups and downs; the good and the bad. I knew I wanted to build something too.”

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