t’s been 60 days since Tarsha Weary landed in Maryland. The Michigan native uprooted her business, SW Design School, for what she calls better opportunities, and to escape the drama that has plagued her hometown Detroit.

“In Detroit there is a lot of corruption going on,” Weary said. “So when you have an innovative idea it doesn’t matter because they don’t know who you’re connected with and people are leery about doing business, especially when the federal government is in there investigating everything.”

Her idea and company focuses on teaching students who don’t have the money for a traditional graphic design degree. She then helps place them into jobs. The training is online and mainly video tutorials but she picked Maryland as her new home because of grant funding that helps pay the salaries of her students.

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