Quintel Gwinn Manifests Her Dream By Angela Lindsay
Quintel Gwinn's design for a Philadelphia client
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he road to becoming a business owner is often complicated. Minority entrepreneurs can face particularly onerous obstacles when trying to access the resources necessary to make business ownership more than just a good idea. Interior designer Quintel Gwinn knows all too well how rocky the road to entrepreneurship can be. After graduating from Georgia Southern University with a degree in interior design and completing an internship at an architectural firm, she landed a job with a Black architectural firm in Columbus, Ga. But when the economy took a downturn, she lost her job. After moving to Charlotte with her family in 2010, Gwinn worked a couple of part-time jobs, earned her Master of Arts degree in Interior Architecture from Queens University of Charlotte and then created her own design firm, Quin Gwinn Studio, in 2014.
Photo by Joshua Galloway
Quin the winner
Quintel Gwinn, owner of the interior design firm Quin Gwinn Studio, is the winner of the Pride 2022 Minority Business Breaking Barriers Award. 14
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Gwinn accomplished another notable achievement in February by winning the Pride Minority Business Breaking Barriers Award at this year’s Pride Magazine›s Pride Awards luncheon at The Westin Charlotte. Gwinn and several other local small business owners participated in a creative pitch contest on stage during the program. Audience
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Pride Award Winner
