Meet the Leadership Team
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Soniyah Robinson
Hi! I am Soniyah and I work as a project lead for the Black Entrepreneur Initiative at Elon and serve on the national Black Entrepreneur Initiative founding committee. I am also a Social Justice Lead with Elon’s Center for Design Thinking. I am the founder and owner of Boundless Blackness, LLC and center my work around social justice storytelling, equity through design thinking with a focus on human rights and Black empowerment through the form of entrepreneurship.
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Dejour Banks
Hello! My name is Dejour, and I am currently a sophomore as well as an Entrepreneurship major. My big vision with Entrepreneurship is go start as an “Intrapreneur” within a company for some years following college, and to eventually extend into the startup route after some accumulated experience. I am bilingual; Latin culture and the Spanish language is something I am extremely passionate about!
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Hunter McIntosh
I am Hunter and I’m currently a full-time graduate student at Elon University’s MSBA program. I received my undergraduate degree in finance from Elon in December ‘21. I have a strong interest in entrepreneurship and venture capital as well as serve as a captain of the men’s basketball program at Elon.
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Yancy Longin
Hello my name is Yancy Longin and I am a sophomore at Elon University. On campus a couple of close friends and I have started a beach clothing brand. I am also involved in other organizations such such as University Innovation Fellows, Alpha Kappa Psi, and Beta Theta Pi. I am excited to be a part of BEI and looking forward to seeing the accomplishments it will achieve.
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Kobie Williams
Hi! I am Kobie Williams, a senior at Elon and I major in Entrepreneurship and minor in Computer Science. I have created an app called BestSpots which aims to solve problems in local search through crowd-sourced knowledge networks. I also am looking to experiment with blockchain technologies as well as other new and emerging technologies. I am a Doherty Center Scholar Intern and have worked on multiple entrepreneurial events that the DC has hosted for Elon.