Essence By Noel Cody ·Updated February 21, 2023
At the 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture, New Voices and JP Morgan Chase hosted a pitch competition to help women-of-color create, launch, and grow their business. And now we’re catching up with the winner—Aliyah Marandiz, Founder of Sugardoh.
An unlikely entrepreneur, Aliyah found that corporate environments stifled her love for creating and building things. So, after working as a freelance designer
