Co-Founder Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/co-founder/ S.O. What! Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:24:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://i0.wp.com/summerowens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-Summer-Owens-S.O.-What.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Co-Founder Archives - Summer Owens S.O. What! https://summerowens.com/tag/co-founder/ 32 32 152051023 From South Memphis to Success: Meka Egwuekwe Story https://summerowens.com/from-south-memphis-to-success-meka-egwuekwe-story/ https://summerowens.com/from-south-memphis-to-success-meka-egwuekwe-story/#respond Sat, 30 Aug 2025 14:00:38 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=24295 Growing up in South Memphis without his father, Meka Egwuekwe could have let his circumstances hold him back. Instead, he leaned on education, community, and faith to write a different story. From teaching himself programming as a kid to earning degrees from Morehouse and Duke, Meka proved that where you start doesn’t determine where you […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/from-south-memphis-to-success-meka-egwuekwe-story/feed/ 0 24295 Derek Ryan S.O. What! Success Story https://summerowens.com/derek-ryan-s-o-what-success-story/ https://summerowens.com/derek-ryan-s-o-what-success-story/#respond Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:00:26 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22442 Have you ever connected with someone over a testimony? I’m not sure exactly how it started, but when I met Derek Ryan it seems like our first words to each other were our testimonies.  Our stories. Seeing the amazing place he was in life at that time (and in an even greater place now). I […]

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]]> https://summerowens.com/derek-ryan-s-o-what-success-story/feed/ 0 22442 Leshundra Robinson S.O. What! Success Story https://summerowens.com/leshundra-robinson-s-o-what-success-story/ https://summerowens.com/leshundra-robinson-s-o-what-success-story/#respond Mon, 28 Mar 2022 07:00:48 +0000 https://summerowens.com/?p=22057 Many nonprofit organizations are born out of need and many are created from painful personal experiences. When I met Leshundra Robinson she asked me to speak at an anti-bullying conference she organized for the nonprofit she co-founded, UCAN of Memphis. I was blown away by her passion and compelled by her story to do more myself. […]

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