Gynella Ngounou

TEDx at Barry University

Gynella Ngounou is a senior at Georgia State University as well as the founder and CEO of Students Expressing Life through Fashion, otherwise known as SELF. Students Expressing Life through Fashion is an award-winning sewing and design Academy equipping at-risk fashion designers with affordable, quality fashion education and sustainable careers. Gynella has worked in the fashion space since 2018, with the goal to respond to education gaps and offer at-risk fashion designers the best and most innovative learning programs. Today, Students Expressing Life through Fashion has partnered with Fortune500 companies, won numerous pitch competitions and rewards that have highlighted the innovation in their services, and has collaborated with Georgia State University's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute to beta test their sewing and design program on campus. Apart from doing Students Expressing Life through Fashion, Gynella is an award-winning fashion designer who specializes in Women's Wear suits and is a stutterer redefining the realm of possibility for other stutterers. 

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