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Indya Lallier
The Beauty Therapist LLC owner / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s business: For Lallier, restoring confidence key to care routine

(Editor’s note: This is the 71st installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
GIVING VOICE: Ann Clanton, founder and owner of Ann Clanton Communications, is pictured in front of the R.I. Statehouse.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: Communications firm allows Clanton to fuse her love of...

(Editor’s note: This is the 70th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
COTTAGE INDUSTRY: Karen Torres Melendez of West Warwick says she was able to start her own business, Sweet Sculptures, after Rhode Island updated its laws to allow home-based food entrepreneurs to sell certain goods. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Baking venture born amid life’s challenges


(Editor’s note: This is the 69th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
TRAILBLAZER: Remi Jones is the CEO, executive producer and host of “Remi TV,” Rhode Island’s first Black-owned women’s television show. 
COURTESY JAY HUNT

Everybody’s Business: Multimedia maven gives voice to the underdog

(Editor’s note: This is the 68th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
SUPPORT SYSTEM: Trent Manning, center, is the founder and owner of Down The Road Movers LLC, a Black-owned moving company that he launched to support formerly incarcerated individuals. Pictured with Manning, from left, are foremen/drivers Genesis Harney and Ryan Fogarty.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: Helping formerly incarcerated individuals move on

(Editor’s note: This is the 67th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
SERENDIPITOUS SPARK: Yolanda “Yolie” Rome left her role as an academic adviser at Brown University nearly two years ago and launched the Magnolia Soap & Bath Co. East Greenwich store after visiting a Magnolia store in Montana during a trip to see her son and being inspired to start her own store. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Everybody’s Business: She’s uniting people through soap making

(Editor’s note: This is the 66th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
FIT FOR THE JOB: After excelling at the college level and contributing to two NFL teams, former football player Kerry Taylor turned to personal training, which led to him opening 212 Health & Performance Corp. in East Providence in 2009. 
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Everybody’s Business: Ex-elite football player tackles gym ownership

At 212 Health & Performance Corp., Kerry Taylor seems like just another gym employee in fitness attire getting ready for the next appointment, greeting...
FILLING A NEED: ­Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling says he started Rhode Island-based nonprofit Turtle Island Community Capital to help foster economic sovereignty in Native communities. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Everybody’s Business: Looking to give Indigenous entrepreneurs a big lift

When Alexander “Brave Journey” Sterling returned to his home state of Rhode Island in 2022, he asked local members of his tribe, the Ramapo...
CALM CANINES: Sheila Rose, right, and Ashly Rose operate and own The Peaceful Pack, a luxury in-home dog boarding, day care and pet care service in Johnston. They are pictured with, from left, an Australian shepherd named Max; a pitbull mix named Portia; and a Maltipoo named T’Co. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: Providing a calming touch for dogs

(Editor’s note: This is the 63rd installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
FAMILY ATMOSPHERE: Mery Polanco, left, owner and director of Nery’s Land Learning Center, and teaching assistant Felipa Ponte, third from right, work with kids at the day care center in Pawtucket.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Everybody’s Business: Day care offers kids a sense of belonging

(Editor’s note: This is the 62nd installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
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