Our Story
In April of 2020, Sarika Mendu (MBA 2020) and Amina Mohamed (MBA 2020) watched their EC year turn upside down due to a sudden global lockdown and saw an opportunity for MBA students to get involved and help small businesses stay afloat in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The soon-to-be graduates recognized that many struggling organizations could benefit from those with MBA skills marketing, finance, strategy, etc. to navigate unprecedented challenges. As they spoke to friends about this, they found hundreds of MBA students eager to help, but who didn’t know where to begin. Seizing this opportunity, they founded “MBAs Fight COVID”, an initiative that matched HBS students with business owners seeking help.
Queen Connie Clapper, center, with Grailon and Yvonne Hunter are happy with their gifts.
The Ms. Senior Cumberland County Queens are more than pageant winners.Â
Doing good is one of the groupâs mission statements. Recently, Ms. Senior Cumberland County 2019-â20 Connie Clapper learned that former Tennessee Senior State Queen Yvonne Hunter needed the groupâs help.Â
Hunter was relocating so her mother, who will be 99 this month, could be with her.Â
Clapper arranged for the airport to be a drop-off for food and other items to help Hunter and her mother settle in together.Â
Mary Conner and Faith Lyons, both past county queens, helped collect a generous supply of needed items from the group to bless Hunter.