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Minnesota Daily interviews Yasameen Sajady ’11 for story on Sisterhood Boutique

Posted on March 28, 2016February 1, 2019

Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota, recently published an article about Sisterhood Boutique, a secondhand clothing store in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis that serves as a hands-on entrepreneurial experience for young women in the area. The program, which offers four-month internships that help build and develop the business skills of young women aged 16-21, recently celebrated its second anniversary.

Included in the article was an interview with Yasameen Sajady ’11, an Augsburg College alumna who was hired as the social enterprise manager at Pillsbury United Communities, which owns the store and oversees the internship program as the business grows. The internships begin in the classroom, but quickly shift to the storefront. 鈥淚n the first two weeks, we really hit hard on the skills that you would need to be successful,鈥� Sajady said. 鈥淎nd then they鈥檙e put on the job.鈥�

Read A 鈥榤ultilayered鈥� enterprise on the Minnesota Daily site.

Minnesota Campus Compact reports on Augsburg College’s support of Muslim students, community

Posted on January 28, 2016July 9, 2024

The Minnesota chapter of Campus Compact, an organization that supports civic engagement and democratic renewal across college campuses, recently published an article about Augsburg College’s proactive approach to supporting Muslim students and the local Muslim community.

Following inflammatory statements made by high-profile politicians and presidential candidates about the Muslim community, the Augsburg College faculty passed a resolution declaring their “deep support, love and friendship for the Muslim members of our campus, community and world.” The Campus Compact article states that, “Faculty and staff at the college make this commitment real through myriad practices and partnerships.”

Included in those partnerships is the work that the College has done with Sisterhood Boutique, a “second-hand clothing store and youth social entrepreneurship program developed by young women, a majority East African and Muslim, living in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis.” Augsburg faculty members — such as Assistant Professor of Business聽Marc Isaacson聽— have engaged their students in projects to support the boutique.

Read: In Word and Deed: Augsburg College in Support of Muslim Students, Colleagues, Neighbors on the Campus Compact site.

Augsburg-connected startup highlighted by MinnPost

Posted on December 12, 2014June 4, 2015

MinnPost聽news featured聽students and staff from Augsburg College and other local universities who collaborated on聽a startup organization, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarf, which opened a women’s clothing and accessory store.

The store —聽aptly named Sisterhood Boutique — is nestled in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis and features聽donated fashions at affordable prices.

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Scarf received funding for their startup venture from several Twin Cities organizations including聽Fairview Health Services and the Women鈥檚 Foundation of Minnesota, as well as support from Augsburg.

To , visit the MinnPost news site.

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