Alumni Spotlight: Globe Names Tolosano MVP Entrepreneur
Smaranda Tolosano (Pardee ’17) was recently named one of the Class of 2017’s MVP Entrepreneurs by The Boston Globe. The list featured 25 graduating seniors from across Boston universities and colleges who won entrepreneurship competitions, worked on social impact projects and launched businesses.
The feature, entitled “Meet the Class of 2017’s MVP Entrepreneurs,” was published in The Globe on May 26, 2017.
From the text of the article:
Smaranda Tolosano was part of a project team that developed digital solutions for the global refugee crisis, focusing specifically on unaccompanied young people. The team created a mass-texting system to enable the staff at a youth center in a refugee camp in Calais, France, to communicate with the more than 600 children they served, before and after the camp was razed last fall. Tolosano, a native of France, “carried the entire project, and was able to communicate with the refugee children and understand their needs, work with the youth center staff, and also speak with developers and tech people about our constraints and needs,” says Boston University professor Kaija Schilde, who nominated Tolosano. Tolosano says she hopes to eventually work as a foreign correspondent; she’s hoping to land a visa to stay in the United States but so far hasn’t received one.
You can read the entire article here.