Friday, February 5, 2021
After working for more than a decade as a chemical engineer, Waterloo Engineering alumnus Ajoa Mintah (BASc ’01) reached a crossroads in her career.
"I got to a point with my work where I hit a ceiling,” she recalls. “I knew I wouldn’t be able to break through as a Black woman. So, I had a choice to make. Am I going to work for someone else and keep trying to break through or build my own house?”
It was a turning point that led Mintah to found an ice cream business in 2016 that now boasts a factory in Kitchener and a retail shop in Waterloo.
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