Good morning,
Wanona Satcher knows how cities work. She also knows how they often fail to work--and a few years ago, that gave her a business idea.
In 2017, Satcher--a community and economic development specialist with a background in architecture--founded Makhers Studio, an Atlanta-based firm that converts shipping containers into housing. In the years since, she’s made a number of pivots: from a non-profit to for-profit, and from refurbishing shipping containers to building small factories so that the containers can be converted--and jobs can be created--in the cities where the containers will be used.
The idea was always to help build affordable housing in the community. And when Satcher read an autobiography of Herman J. Russell--a prominent Black real-estate developer who built a significant portion of Atlanta’s skyline--she started connecting the dots between entrepreneurship and civil rights. 'We need you to keep doing what you're doing because one, you can bail us out when we get arrested,” civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Andrew Young would tell Russell. “And two, you're building an opportunity, and we're going to need jobs for people.”
To Satcher, those words rang true--especially throughout this year. Read our story to learn how she’s using entrepreneurship to put that mission into action. |
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