Growing up in Bryn Mawr, Team Clean owner Donna L. Allie never thought about being an entrepreneur.

Her mother was a hairdresser and her father owned a bar. Her aunts and other relatives were also self-employed, but none of that appealed to her. She was set on finding a 9-to-5 job.

As a student at Wilberforce University, an Ohio HBCU, Allie thought she had her entire future planned. She was in a dual degree program with majors in vocational rehabilitation and sociology. After graduation, she was going to enroll in a graduate program for engineering and learn how to make prostheses. During the ’80s, then-President Ronald Reagan made significant changes to social programs and Allie was preparing for career to help paraplegic people no longer eligible for those programs find jobs.

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