Posted
September 2, 2020
By the time Diana Amima arrived at the Carlson School, she had two things many of her fellow undergraduate students did not: a college degree and several years of professional experience as a wine import specialist from her home country of Kenya.
Amima, who was born and raised in Kenya, dreamed of moving to the United States, where she intended to further her education in supply chain management and secure a better life for her daughter. While she initially thought she wanted to live on the East Coast, Amima found someone in Minnesota who was willing to host her and her daughter. That’s when she set her sights on the Carlson School of Management.
“I knew it was where I needed to go,” Amima, ’20 BSB (expected), says.
