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Please email resumes to entrepreneurship@umkc.edu to indicate interest for these positions. When a position opens up, we will follow up for interviews.
Manasa Sakthivel
Major: Business Administration with emphasis in Finance and Management
Year/Class: Class 2024
About Manasa: Manasa is an international student from Pondicherry, India. She is currently the Vice President of Fundraising and Outreach for UMKC Enactus and the Vice President for International Roos. She also works at the Campus recreation as a Building Supervisor. She is fluent in English, Tamil and has intermediate level in French. Manasa loves cooking as well as dressing up.
Advice to Students: Be unafraid of being wrong, it’s how you grow! Show yourself some grace and know that it will always work out in the end! Take chances with making friends, joining organizations, leading a group; you never know what it’ll end up becoming!!
Sophia Ho
Majors: Business Administration with an Emphasis in Entrepreneurship
Year/Class: Class of 2024
About Sophia: Sophia Ho is a third-year Chinese American student. She is beginning her fourth client consulting project at the Bloch Consulting Lab in addition to being an Inclusion and Diversity speaker for the Urban Financial Services Coalition. She loves making art and using it to connect with others in emotional ways. Sophia is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese and is passionate about connecting with POC entrepreneurs in the community.
Advice to Students: There is all to gain and nothing to lose by interacting with as many people in the community as possible. Be proud of who you are and listen to everyone’s unique lived experiences. You’ll more often regret the times you said “no” than the times you said “yes”!
EllieAna Hale
Major: Communications BA with an emphasis in Journalism, PolSci BA, Psych Minor
Year/Class: Class of 2025
About Ellie: Ellie is from Derby, Kansas but moved around everywhere as a kid. Ellie has a history of working with Northeast News and various political organizations within campaign work. Ellie is also a climber at Sequence gym and loves to spend her days hanging out with her partner and their gecko, Joffrey. Ellie loves to read and write and will always try to find time to do so.
Advice to Students: Take all the chances life gives you. My greatest motivator in life is the fact that we never know what is going to happen so if we sit back, nothing will come of it. If the opportunity presents itself, take it. You never know what people you’ll meet or the door that will open.
Vari Patel
Majors: Political Science and Finance Pre-Law
Year/Class: Class of 2025
About Vari: Vari is a dancer on the Kansas City Chakra team. Apart of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority as the director of Academic Affairs, and the Vice President of Health and Wellness for the Collegiate Panhellenic Council. Vari also founded and is the president of the first ever chapter of FBLA- Phi Beta Lambda here on campus. In her free time, she loves traveling, discovering new unique places around the city, and doing outdoor activities with family and friends.
Advice to Students: Get involved with what you can. UMKC is very much a school that will give you what you put into the school and so expanding your network is crucially important as we are in the middle of a rich, thriving, and growing city.
