The heart of our mission is to find the amazing souls that breathe life into our communities. In the recent weeks, we’ve had the privilege to connect with some incredible artists, creatives, entrepreneurs and rabble rousers and we can’t begin to express how impressed we are with the incredible group below.
Jenny
Growing up, I requested to repaint and rearrange my bedroom every few months or so. Changing my surroundings was fun and creative! Who knew I would make a career out of it. Even before graduating from University of Georgia with a degree in Furnishings and Interiors, I started designing kitchen and baths for an Athens supplier. From there I went to Atlanta to work for a high-end English cabinetry company. I placed roots in Savannah (My husband’s hometown). I’ve been in the Low Country doing interior design for 20 years. After the birth of my 2nd daughter, I realized I needed a better way to balance work and motherhood, so I opened my own firm 8 years ago. Read more>>
Brooke Coleman
Hi, I’m Brooke, the founder of The Marketing Company. Funny enough, I never set out to build a marketing agency, especially not one that now serves clients across multiple industries with a team of specialists behind the scenes. My background is in business consulting. For over a decade, I worked side by side with business owners, analyzing operations, fixing inefficiencies, and scaling growth. Time and time again, I watched elite marketing firms charge a premium while delivering shallow strategies, inflated reports, and little real movement for my clients. I got tired of watching good businesses get burned by empty promises. Read more>>
Laura Morera Lucas
I’m originally from Spain, where I started playing tennis at age three. Sports have always been a big part of who I am. Moving to the U.S. on a tennis scholarship was a huge step—both exciting and challenging. Balancing college tennis with an engineering degree pushed me hard, but I’ve always been someone who embraces challenges and thinks big. Read more>>
Baye’te Chinwendu
As I started leaning more toward visual arts, everyone got on board. I was lucky to be in a community that supported my vision and poured into my gifts. Even when I started high school, I was nurtured by my teachers, Mr. Gresens, Mrs. Holtzer, and Mr. Greene. I graduated knowing that I wanted to be an animator, but more importantly I graduated knowing I could. My 4 years at SCAD prepared me to work as a freelance animator, and then a full time 2D animator for shows on Netflix, Hulu, Youtube, and HBO Max. There are so many people that were apart of my success, but to sum things up, I just think I was fortunate to be born where I was and to be in all of the environments I was raised in. Read more>>
Nicole
I discovered a deepening love for teaching and mental health as I found myself instructing students at different mental health facilities around Savannah. This led to pursuing a graduate degree as a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. With clinical experience in a variety of settings I found that I truly enjoyed working with clients in an outpatient practice. I have now been working as a PMHNP for 3 years. After 2 years working with a company, I decided to open my own practice, and here we are today! 9 months as a business owner and provider at Mindful Mental Health and Well-Being, LLC. Read more>>
Irini Sevdalis
Coming back to the U.S. after my mother’s passing was one of the biggest decisions I’ve made—it set the stage for everything that followed. That choice shaped the direction of my life and became a turning point that guided everything after. I saw possibility. I focused on manifesting dreams. I never thought about what could go wrong. I just followed the spark and trusted in my faith. Read more>>
Cathy Baxter
Being named the inaugural director of Hope Haven, a social day program for individuals living with brain changes, has been a true blessing. It’s a space where both our members and our volunteers can step away from the stress and noise of daily life. For four hours, we all live fully in the moment together. There’s laughter, conversation, music, creativity, and companionship. We make no distinction between members and volunteers. We’re simply people, connecting. That joyful connection has the power to uplift everyone in the room. Read more>>
Claire Jameson
In this business you’re always dealing with a lot of rejection and that can be difficult and draining. And with social media comes hate. When I first started posting on TikTok right after I turned 16 during the pandemic I was shocked at the hate comments that were pouring in. I wasn’t used to that and at that time TikTok didn’t really do anything about it. It’s why when my instagram blew up I spent more time on that platform where it wasn’t as bad. The rejection can be difficult but you just have to tell your self it’s redirection. I’ve gone through disappointments and then sometimes something even better comes along. You have to remind yourself it’s not rejection it’s redirection. Read more>>
Krishna Patel
Dhruvi and I started this business in October of 2024 and we came up with the idea when we reconnected after having her son, now my godson, back in Sept of 2023. Read more>>
Shaunak Patel
And anytime we would have guests or my friends come over, they would always be so surprised that such beautiful objects (which are not just paper-planes) could be created simply out of paper and and I think that kind of got me really addicted to the joy of making things. Or perhaps, create things that would make people pause and make them go wow! I really loved giving out my creations to people so that they could cherish and spread the awe of extraordinary objects made out of very ordinary things around us. Read more>>
Veronika
A hobby, a way to have fun. But I realized that art could actually be a job and be my future once I reached high school, which was when I started practicing seriously. And from there up to now, I found success through constant practice and by finding people in my field that I could look up to and set as my goal. To find projects to join to be able to become a better creative, I scoured the internet for nonprofit projects and volunteered myself so that I could build more work that fits the industry I wanted to join. I am still studying in college, so my future is still ahead of me, but hopefully soon my name will be in the credits for some of the larger projects out there. Read more>>
Sammy J’juan
The truth is, I built what I never had growing up. My mom was a single mother raising two kids. She struggled, but she always tried to get us nice things. That stuck with me. I also grew up feeling unseen—like my presence didn’t matter. So now, everything I do centers around helping others feel seen. I want people to walk with presence and value themselves. That’s the core of everything I create. Read more>>
Cheri Cobb
What sets us apart? I’ve worked inside these offices. I’ve been the treatment coordinator, the office manager, the one answering phones while juggling 10 other things. So we don’t just make things look pretty we create marketing that works in real life, with your front desk, your team, your ideal client, and your revenue goals in mind. Read more>>
Caspian Dall
I was an aspiring filmmaker throughout high school, so when it was time to choose a college, I knew I wanted to give it a real shot. When I finally arrived at SCAD in the fall of 2023, I was excited to be surrounded by like-minded peers. I had pretty much decided that I was going to pursue a career as a producer until one fateful production meeting for a short called Graveyard Shift. At the end of our meeting, we realized that we didn’t have an Assistant Director. I (somewhat begrudgingly) volunteered to step in. After that set, I fell in love. I’ve been pursuing a career as an Assistant Director ever since. Read more>>
Yanella Biggins
By senior year of high school, I was all in—pressuring my mom about FAFSA, chasing scholarships, and continuing the healthcare science track I’d been on since middle school. But life has a way of introducing purpose through detours. That detour was welding. What started as a class became a passion, and what felt like betrayal to my family and what would make them proud, slowly revealed itself as destiny. I was torn between two futures—medicine or the trade I was born to master. And I wasn’t just good at both—I was gifted. Read more>>
Tiffany Swinton
My journey into the notary world started in a place many wouldn’t expect — a government office. While working with a local agency, I was encouraged to become a notary to support internal documentation needs. At the time, I saw it as just another task to help my team. But what began as a functional responsibility soon revealed a much deeper purpose. I found myself drawn to the structure, the importance of the documents I was handling, and the trust placed in me during each notarization. Read more>>
Sydnie Steenstra
Last year I started an all-girls run club here in Savannah, Georgia. My goal was to create a safe, supportive space for young women to connect through movement. What began as a small weekly meet-up with a handful of girls quickly grew into a community of runners of all levels. I saw a need for more female-led spaces in the local fitness scene, a place where girls could show up as they are, feel empowered, and celebrate their strength together. Watching this group grow, cheer each other on, and accomplish personal goals has been one of the most rewarding experiences. Read more>>
Amy Schmidt
I’m the author of the best-seller, Cannonball! Fearlessly Facing Midlife and Beyond, the host of the award winning podcast, Fearlessly Facing Fifty and beyond, a media contributor around the globe on confidence, reinvention, parenting young adults and the power of sharing your story. I launched the Fearlessly Facing Fifty brand the year before turning 50 because I knew the stories and wisdom women have, needs to be shared and woven together to inspire each other. Read more>>
Andrew Eisenhauer
Good question! I grew up in the Virgin Islands and my dad sent me to the Savannah College of Art and Design once I proved myself through artistic discipline (drawing every morning for five years). The friends I met there were amazing, and SCAD polished me so much as an artist. Nowadays, through the encouragement of my wife and family, I attend one to two pop up events a month (at Locally Made Savannah, a great 
locally made shop on Broughton Street) and create art every week. Growing up in the Caribbean has given me a love for color and life that is introduced in the popular local market energy that I bring to artworks. Read more>>
Morgan Hammock
My entrepreneurial journey started when I was a student at St. Vincent’s. I would walk up and down Broughton Street, imagining what it would be like to have a store of my own one day. That vision stayed with me, and after years of working in retail and learning the ins and outs of the industry, I sorta felt ready to take the leap…. It took over two years, and a lot of tears, to find someone willing to lease me a building to me. I couldn’t get approved for a loan anywhere, so over those two years saved every dollar I could and made it happen all on my own. Read more>>
Courtney Grunninger Bonney
I spent almost a decade in academics, and taught at Clemson (while finishing my degree), then at FSU as a visiting assistant professor in the planning department, and finally with SCAD in historic preservation. While I really enjoyed teaching and the research portions of academics, after the pandemic, we decided that the timing was right for us to venture out on our own. We had been musing about the idea of starting a business together since we were undergrads, and we finally felt like we had the experience and the right opportunities to make it happen. That was in 2021, and we have been dedicated to our business ever since! Read more>>
RahulRaj Macha
Right now, I’m working independently as a freelance artist in the visual effects space. I take on a mix of projects — from cinematic sequences and virtual production work to real-time environments and stylized animations. I’m especially drawn to projects that blur the lines between film and games, and I try to bring a strong design sensibility and technical backbone to everything I work on. Freelancing has also given me the flexibility to collaborate with studios around the world and be a part of really varied and exciting work. Read more>>
