Mirtha Donastorg
Economy Reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Business reporter @ajc via @Report4America, formerly @tpinsights @cnn, based in ATL
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1 week ago |
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg
What do former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have in common? They have gotten behind Campus, an accredited, two-year, for-profit college that is trying to change how community college works in the U.S. Atlanta is a key part of that vision, with the company slated to create hundreds of jobs in the city. Campus was founded by Atlanta-born entrepreneur Tade Oyerinde with a goal of making online learning social and engaging.
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1 week ago |
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg
The Georgia Tech Class of 2025 is walking away from school with their degrees — and if they dream of being an entrepreneur, a chance to get their startup off the ground, courtesy of this year’s commencement speaker. Atlanta entrepreneur Christopher Klaus will pay for the startup incorporation costs for every Tech graduate this year — from undergrads to PhDs — he told the students during his speech Friday morning.
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2 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg
Brenda Thornton wasn’t looking to change her life, she just wanted to go on a free trip. In 2019, then a junior at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Thornton decided to join an after-school program run by local nonprofit HYPE. It focuses on getting underrepresented girls into tech by teaching them to code, but Thornton joined because she wanted to go overseas. “I didn’t know those were the terms and conditions, but I was told a free trip,” Thornton laughed. Then came the pandemic.
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3 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg
For Nikki Porcher, the past few months have been mentally exhausting. Before the election, she did her research, reading Project 2025 front to back. Still, she has been surprised by Trump’s first 100 days. “A lot of stuff that is happening, I knew was coming down the pipeline. However, I did not know it would happen so quickly, so swiftly and so immediately,” Porcher said.
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4 weeks ago |
ajc.com | Mirtha Donastorg
Bar Vegan, celebrity restaurateur Pinky Cole and two of her businesses have failed to pay a settlement agreed to months ago to end a lawsuit over unpaid wages, plaintiffs in the case told a federal judge Wednesday. But Cole told the judge that even though she was named as a defendant because she was the CEO of Slutty Vegan at the time, she did not own an interest in Bar Vegan and wasn’t running the glitzy Ponce City Market restaurant.
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