A woman-owned apparel company that’s all about turning a “mess into a message.”
The conversation that inspired her to start the business came from one of the darker times in Baltimore’s history: the controversial death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died after being injured in police custody in 2015.
“While I was trying to experiment and figure out this Freddie Gray uprising and what that was making me feel inside, I was like, ‘This is a mess’,” she recalled.
That’s when Kalilah decided to turn the “mess into a message.” Going forward, she wanted the messages on her t-shirts to touch on love, life, career, and current events.
As a CEO who once had 16 employees and is now wearing multiple hats to keep her business going, she talked about how the ups and downs of her journey have helped shape her drive as an entrepreneur…