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Jamila Huxtable

Reporter, Founder Brew

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Starting Your Business

A visa nightmare sparked this founder’s immigration-focused startup

After bad legal advice nearly cost her a job, Aizada Marat built Alma to rethink how professionals and companies navigate the US immigration system.

Jamila Huxtable
Collage showing 4 founder headshots alongside photos from their time in the military. Starting from center top and moving clockwise, we see Kimberly Shenk, a white woman with long wavy blonde hair and bangs, seen next to a photo of her in a blue service dress uniform. Below her is John Doyle, a white man with short brown hair wearing a blue button-down shirt, next to a photo of him wearing a camouflage combat uniform and gear. Next is Daniel Castillo, a Black man with curly black hair on top of his head but closely shaved on the sides with a black goatee wearing a black suit, white dress shirt, and black tie, next to a photo of him in a U.S. Marine Corps blue dress uniform. Above is a headshot of Adam Harder, a man with short curly hair and stubble wearing a white t-shirt and blue blazer, alongside a photo of him wearing a flight uniform and helmet.
Founder Leadership

Startup founders on the lessons they learned from military life

Veteran founders draw on military training to build companies rooted in structure, discipline, and speed.

Jamila Huxtable
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Growing Your Business

How boutique fitness founders build for balance

Fitness club founders and operators are navigating a growing tension between pricing, models, and accessibility.

Jamila Huxtable
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Starting Your Business

Inside Angel Gregorio’s model of free space and Black business incubation

The Spice Suite in Washington, DC, operates as more than a spice shop—it’s a layered ecosystem of retail, real estate, and programming designed to give Black entrepreneurs free access to space, community, and opportunity through her Black and Forth model.

Jamila Huxtable
Photo of Alexandria Diggs, a Black woman with dark middle-parted hair, smiling and posing in front of her cinnamon bun stand, with purple banners and balloons.
Growing Your Business

How this entrepreneur turned home baking into a rising business

Alexandria Diggs turned home baking into Lou’s Buns, a DC storefront built on community support, creative flavors, and hard-won lessons in growing a food business.

Jamila Huxtable
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Founder Leadership

The pressure female founders carry

Burnout among female founders is often normalized—until it isn’t.

Jamila Huxtable
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Starting Your Business

Why Vidovo founder Elijah Khasabo turned down VC money

The hardest part wasn’t saying no to the investment. It was surviving the stretch before it was clear he’d made the right call.

Jamila Huxtable
Headshot of James Oliver Jr., a man with a shaved head wearing thick dark glasses, a navy blazer with a rainbow striped pocket square and blue t-shirt underneath, holding his hands tented together and smiling broadly at the camera.
Founder Life

Why this founder is building a mental health fund for founders

After pivotal moments in his personal and professional life, Kabila founder James Oliver Jr. set out to address a gap he saw firsthand: founders struggling in silence. Now, he’s building a fund aimed at making mental health support more accessible—while navigating the challenges of scaling it.

Jamila Huxtable
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Founder Leadership

What it takes to build an ethical supply chain at scale

Another Tomorrow founder Vanessa Barboni Hallik on the real cost of transparency—from sourcing and supplier relationships to the trade-offs that come with growth.

Jamila Huxtable
Headshot of Nitin Pachisia, a clean-shaven man with short dark hair wearing a patterned button-down shirt smiling at the camera.
Founder Guidance

Business founders from abroad need to worry about more than the bottom line

A conversation with VC Nitin Pachisia on how visa constraints shape how immigrant founders raise, structure, and build.

Jamila Huxtable