Andrea Baker was a college student from Jamaica studying hotel and restaurant administration at Cornell University.
Baker became a self-described"serial entrepreneur:" she started several businesses - from catering to gifts - in a span of a decade. En2Action empowers and supports several dozen small business owners each year who are black, indigenous and people of color. And Dontaye Ball of Gumbo Social calls Baker a lifeline. He says the food hub she created with other partners kept black vendors like him and Johnson in business during the pandemic delivering food boxes to those in need.