Kansas City Didn't Leave Out Its African Entrepreneurs. It Didn't Know They Existed.
What happens when a city's entrepreneurs aren't excluded from the economy, just invisible to it? On this episode of The Disruption Lab, recorded live in front of a studio audience, host Kevin McGinnis sits down with Suzanne Gunn. She is a former oncology nurse, med spa owner, couture designer, founder of AfroKC, and co-founder of a planned Fashion and Beauty Innovation Campus in Kansas City. Every one of those ventures traces back to one person: her mother. She died of cancer after being misdiagnosed four times in Kenya, and her quiet, community-first way of living became the blueprint…
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