<span classstyle="ngfont-scopesize:medium;" ><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helveticatimes new roman, Arialtimes, sans-serif; font"><span class="ng-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;scope">Minashsha is an international sophomore from Bangladesh at Berea College. From an early age, her dream</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="details" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; display: inline-block;"><span class="ng-scope" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">was to pursue a [[File:Minashsha Zareel Lamisa v2.JPG|thumb]]better higher education than her country had to offer, and the only barrier to her dream was financial. In 2014, she received a full tuition scholarship at Berea College, Kentucky, which made her dream come true. <span class="ng-scope"><span style="display: inline-block;">Currently, she is</span></span>pursuing a double major in Economics and Business Administration (Finance).</span></span>
<span style="colorfont-size: rgb(51, 51, 51)medium; "><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helveticatimes new roman, Arialtimes, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">CurrentlyComing from Bangladesh, Minashsha grew up in the heard of pioneering social entrepreneurship initiatives by Dr. Mohammad Yunus and Fazle Hasan Abed, but it was only until last summer when she is pursuing a double major in Economics was fully exposed to social entrepreneurship and Business Administration (Finance)its impact on developing communities. Combining During her passion summer internship as Community Development Intern in Entrepreneurship for social the Public Good (EPG) Summer Institute in Berea College, she gained extensive knowledge on entrepreneurship , innovation and her leadership, communication economic development through coursework and interpersonal skillshands on experience in Appalachia. Currently, she works as the Events Planning Associate of Entrepreneurship for the Public Good Department EPG department which connects undergraduate students with I&E events and programs in Berea Collegeand out of Kentucky. Additionally, she is the President of the intercultural club at Berea College. She founded , and founder of Humans of Berea College (inspired by </span>[http://www.humansofnewyork.com http://www.humansofnewyork.com]<span styleclass="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); fontapple-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sansconverted-serifspace"> font-size: 14pxHumans of New York) line-height: 18px;"</span>) because she believes in the power of people and their stories. She Minashsha is a passionate, hardworking, goal-oriented and slightly humorous person. Last but not the least, she is one of the biggest food and travel lover you will ever know. <br/><br/><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">As a candidate for the University Innovation Fellow Program, she is working with her Leadership Circle and Berea Innovation Studio – the I&E community on campus – to increase I&E engagement and expand the I&E network on her campus. The projects include Solve-A-Problem Saturdays (ideation workshop), Date With Design Thinking (design thinking workshop) and Idea Bounce (idea pitch competition). </span><br/><br/>If you ever want to buy her food or air tickets, or reach her for any other reason, please feel free to contact her at lamisam@berea.edu.</span></span>
<span style = Related Links ="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">If you ever want to buy her food or air tickets, or reach her for any other reason, please feel free to contact her at lamisam@berea.edu. [[Berea College]] [[Berea College Student Priorities]] <br/span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-familyUniversity Innovation Fellows Spring 2016: [[Ishwar Agarwal|Ishwar Agarwal]] [[Bessaad Syrine]] '''RTENOTITLE''Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size [[Talha Rehman|Talha Rehman]] Spring 2015: [[Tran K. Nguyen]] [[Dylan mullins]] [[Jacob Heller]] [[Eugeniu Prodan]] [[Anthony Ayebiahwea]] [[Robert Hosking]] Spring 2014: 14px; line-height [[Ali Djire]] [[Solomon Alolga]] Ability Kakama [[Category: 18px;"></span>Student Contributors|M]]