© 2023 WUTC
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Available On Air Stations

Empowering Entrepreneurs At UTC’s Urban Vision Initiative

Mike Bradshaw at a session with UVI participants.
Angela Foster
/
UTC
Mike Bradshaw at a session with UVI participants.

The Urban Vision Initiative here at UTC helps entrepreneurs such as Veatrice Conley to develop and grow new businesses in underserved areas of Chattanooga.

Mike Bradshaw - UVI’s director - is the first entrepreneur-in-residence at UTC, and the interim director of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, all part of the Gary W. Rollins College of Business.

I spoke with him - and Lynn Chestnutt, executive director of the Chattanooga office of the Tennessee Small Business Development Center.

Lynn Chestnutt
TSBDC
/
Lynn Chestnutt

Our thanks to Madison McCann of the TSBDC for recording and editing this conversation.

Stay Connected
Related Content
  • Veatrice Conley of Unveiled Bridal Studio in Chattanooga. UTC’s Mike Bradshaw and TSBDC’s Lynn Chestnutt on UVI. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”
  • Veatrice Conley is the owner of Unveiled Bridal Studio in downtown Chattanooga. She talks about her business - and the support she’s received from the Urban Vision Initiative at the Gary W. Rollins College of Business on our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.