In her first two years of business, Lokal Artisan Foods owner Charisse McGill has found success with her French toast bites that includes a recent stint vending at Spruce Street Harbor Park.

McGill says she gained an advantage as a Black woman founder through academic institutions: Before embarking on her career in entrepreneurship full time, the Temple University alumna quit her job and enrolled in a graduate program at St. Joseph’s University.

“I had resources and access,” she told Technical.ly. “[It helps] to have two university institutions working on your behalf and organizations designed to see you succeed.”

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