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Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022) is a forward-thinking aspiring digital beauty marketing leader and storyteller with an extensive background in chemical engineering and entrepreneurship from Michigan State University. Since she was a little girl she's been at the helm of the beauty industry from sewing pieces for high school fashion shows to becoming a certified esthetician and beauty blogger pre-HBS. Bachelor's in hand, Ja’ has set her sights on earning a master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School to pursue a career in marketing––a redirection she sees more as a "calling” than a career pivot." [...]
I’m a born and raised Detroit-native coming from a long line of incredible matriarchs. My grandmother, born in 1929 on a small rural farm in Arkansas, traveled to Detroit with four toddlers, each one a year apart, via train to meet her husband who had locked in a job in the automotive industry. She eventually was subjected to domestic abuse and did one of bravest acts a Black woman in the 1950s with six children could do: she left. As a first-generation college student, listening at my grandmother’s feet as she recounted lessons she learned throughout her life gave me the sense I could pretty much do anything. [...]
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