Local Entrepreneur Adrienne Pickett Chosen for Prestigious Tory Burch Foundation’s Annual Fellows Program
DETROIT, Mich: Monday, June 30, 2021 -- Local entrepreneur Adrienne Pickett, owner of The Guerrilla Politic, has been selected as one of the 50 early-stage women entrepreneurs by the prestigious Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program.
We were told Mexico would pay for the wall and China would pay for the tariffs. We were told Trump had the largest inauguration in history, even when our own eyes said otherwise. We were told the virus was “under control” months before 500,000+ Americans would end up dying from it. We were told people are only paid what they’re worth, yet people can simultaneously be “heroes” and not worth paying living wages. We were told that we had to be armed to the teeth to prevent tyranny, and then those doing the telling became the tyrants. The lies Republicans manufacture play on Americans’ sense of fairness, hard work, and patriotism...but somehow, they never end up coming true. For a party that continually rails against “alarmism” and “fearmongering,” Republicans sure seem to thrive on scaring their voters to the polls.
It’s tough to be an optimist in a global pandemic, especially one that has cost 500,000+ American lives, sent millions into poverty, and driven countless women from the workforce in just one year. But we’re getting there. More vaccines mean we’re inching ever closer to normalcy, schools are reopening, and additional stimulus payments are finally refilling overstretched bank accounts. Experts seem torn on whether we’re fully on the upswing or headed for a “fourth wave,” but when you’re this far down, there’s only one direction to go, right?