NSU Competes in Moguls in the Making Competition

A team of five students from Norfolk State University will compete in the 6th Annual Moguls in the Making HBCU entrepreneurial pitch competition in Detroit.

The Norfolk State team consists of the following students: Zion Asamoah, General Business/Finance; Makayla Forbes, Political Science; Deasia Kashiri, Psychology; Nya King, General Business/Finance, and Julian Robinson, General Business/Finance.

Each member of the winning team will receive a $20,000 scholarship and a guaranteed internship with Ally, the nation's largest all-digital bank. Presentations by each of the 10 competing teams will be given, and winners announced on Sunday, Oct. 6.

Moguls in the Making was developed in 2019 to provide HBCU students with career-launching business experience, networking access to executives, internships and scholarships, while also giving Ally a new path for reaching diverse talent. Since MITM launched six years ago, Ally has hired 46 of the participants as interns and 15 as full-time employees, working on teams across the company, from IT and marketing to product design and development.

The competition is hosted by Ally and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the largest organization exclusively representing the Black College community. Competing this year are teams from  Elizabeth City State University, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Hampton University, Howard University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina A&T State University, Philander Smith University, Southern University A&M College, Spelman College and Texas Southern University.

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