Meet Qu’Derrick Covington | Executive Director, The Tulsa Initiative Inc.

We had the good fortune of connecting with Qu’Derrick Covington and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Qu’Derrick, what was your thought process behind starting your own business?
The thought process behind starting my own business is that more often than anything we talk about generational wealth while understanding that there is a lack of ownership in the black and brown community. The focus of starting our company was to promote black and brown ownership amongst males of color.

Alright, so for those in our community who might not be familiar with your business, can you tell us more?
The Tulsa Initiative Inc is a digital mentoring platform that focus on entrepreneurship for young males of color between the ages of 18 to 24. We have a 8 week digital program that focus on entrepreneurship at the early stages to include business plans, budgets, SWOT analysis, and etc. At the end of the program, the young males have the opportunity to pitch their business to a panel of judges with the opportunity to receive start-up funds.

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
Visit: Washington Monument and The Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I would like to shoutout our Board of Directors of The Tulsa Initiative Inc.

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