Terps Take Action During COVID-19 TERPS, LIKE THEIR NAMESAKE, are an
extraordinarily resilient bunch. When COVID-19 struck, University of Maryland students, alumni, faculty and staff embraced the challenge of quarantine and hustled to support their local communities.
Route One Apparel founder Ali von Paris ’12 saw a spike in her business when her company’s Marylandthemed facemasks became Governor Hogan’s go-to PPE during the crisis. The company also donated thousands of masks to local hospitals. Hungry Harvest founder and CEO Evan Lutz ’14 personally took to the streets to donate hundreds of their produce boxes to food banks and hospitals in Baltimore. Ladies First Founder Saba Tshibaka ’20 was featured on NBC4 for her launch of FacemaskDC, a website map and directory to connect people seeking facemasks with small businesses making them. Maryland Smith professor Anil K. Gupta, Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, offered his world-renowned thought leadership for a webinar series featuring his insights into COVID-19’s impact on business and the global economy. We released a special COVID survival guide episode of Bootstrapped: A Dingman Center Podcast, featuring essential advice from Maryland Smith clinical professor Oliver Schlake, an entrepreneur with 40 years of professional and academic experience.
Listen: go.umd.edu/Bootstrapped
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