Meet the Entrepreneur: Ohun Ashe
3:29
Grades: 9 - 12
Video Description: Meet Ohun Ashe, a St. Louis activist who is providing the St. Louis community with an online black-owned business directory, ForTheCultureSTL.com.
Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: Business-2**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Ask students to explore the concept of “Startup Business” and come up with their own business idea pitches.
- Have students discuss if they believe female entrepreneurs face unique challenges than their male counterparts.
- Use the video in conjunction with an activity that has students create their own web-based enterprise similar to Ms. Ashe’s. What would they want to focus on? Why? What would be their website name, etc.?
*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
