As an undergraduate at UCLA, then 18-year-old Rachel Sumekh saw that there were students on campus who couldn’t get enough to eat. “Students have enough insecurities,” she says. “We feel food shouldn’t be one of them.” To solve the issue, Sumekh started Swipe Out Hunger, which builds on the meal plan programs already operating on […]

Next time you see someone in the subway lugging a bulky blue Ikea bag, they might be building their own beauty empire. That’s how it was for Karen Young in the early days of her company, Oui Shave. “I spent many days trucking my Ikea bag full of orders on the train and getting a […]