Noted activist Veronika Scott will discuss social entrepreneurship and how young people can become involved in charity as part of a Women's History Month Lecture on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Capstone Conference Center. Scott will alsohave lunch with 15 students earlier in the day.
Scott is the founder of The Empowerment Project, a nonprofit organization that provides employment to homeless people by manufacturing coats that also serve as sleeping bags. According to the group's website, "the coats are distributed to homeless people living on the streets at no cost to them through partnerships we have established with outreach organizations in communities around the nation."
Scott started the project while in college in Detroit as part of a class assignment.
"In Detroit, there's this large homeless population, and they kind of just disappear into the landscape. I wanted to design for this whole population of people that we just don't see," Scott said in an interview with CNN.
She was named a CNN Hero in 2016 in recognition of her work.