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Koko is a refillery and a sustainable living shop based in Columbus, Ohio.  Aidra Hall founded the shop because she wanted to make an individual's journey into sustainability easy and accessible.  (And beautiful!)

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Dominique Hadad started Green Scope Consulting, after winning the President's Prize at OSU, to fulfill her dream of making Columbus a city that has no collective footprint.  She shares her story, her love for the environment, and her insight into how businesses can fulfill their sustainability goals.

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Alina Boyte shares her experience from developing social enterprises at the Changemaker Institute, and insight into intellectual property law for social entrepreneurs.

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Alexander Clemeston shares his experience launching his social enterprise, Together We Compost, a community-focused compost collection service. Launching in 2021, he built this service to make it easy for people to start composting while engaging marginalized communities and building a fair wage company.

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Donna Sikyta, founder of The Sustainery, discusses a solution for diverting material waste from landfills and incinerators. The Sustainery is a B2B marketplace offering solutions that support a circular economy by connecting fashion designers with sustainable and unused materials. Environmentally conscious designers can rely on the Sustainery as a new way to handle materials in the manufacturing process. Donna’s work through the Sustainery creates a more effective system for unwanted and wasted deadstock textiles.

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An introduction to season two of People Helping People, as we journey into sustainable innovation and a deep dive into sustainable product design. In this episode, we explore a broad overview of what this means, and some of the avenues that we’re going to explore in season two.

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David White IV is the Mill Run Campus Pastor for UALC and founded the O2 Conference to give middle school and high school students a platform to share their ideas to create social impact in Columbus, along with the funding and support they need to realize their ideas.  Their conference for 2022 is coming up, and for me personally, it's a source of inspiration hearing the ideas of young people to create change.

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Karl Sona is the founder of the Kas Company, which connects black-owned businesses to corporate brands, and hosts the Dear BLK CEO podcast.  He is a strong advocate of representation that provides a way for people to see themselves in various roles, particularly minorities. Through working together, companies can create a new atmosphere of funding, mentorship, and infrastructure that helps diverse teams thrive. More importantly, Karl works to see a future where these approaches can scale.

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Katherine Ann Byam brings people to think about sustainability, the after-effects connected to small choices, and reimagining capitalism. Katherine is the founder and CEO of Dieple, a data-driven consultancy firm that helps companies with their triple bottom line to thrive with purposeful, sustainable work. The initiative values creating the capacity for people to transition and come up with ideas. She is also the host of the podcast Where Ideas Launch, a podcast for sustainable innovators.  As an innovator herself, Katherine uses her work to actively participate in shifting the culture of entrepreneurial sustainability.

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Rachel Whitworth leads the House of Eden Studio, a marketing and consulting agency supporting non-profits and social impact businesses.

She speaks about measuring, communicating, and showcasing impact cultivated through the good business of social entrepreneurship. Rachel is also a catalyst behind Hello Good World, a way for social enterprises to efficiently measure their impact, to magnify the social impact created by these social enterprises. Based in Australia, the initiative provides marketing services to purpose-led, impact-led organizations, mainly small businesses, so that their business and message can thrive.

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