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Kaneisha Grayson

Founder & CEO
The Art of Applying

Kaneisha Grayson is a 35-year-old Austin native who grew up in the low-income neighborhood of Dove Springs in Southeast Austin. She is a graduate of Pomona College, a Harvard Business School MBA, and a Harvard Kennedy School MPA. She founded her educational consulting company The Art of Applying in 2010 from her Harvard apartment. She bootstrapped her company to a highly profitable global million-dollar business. Kaneisha's company The Art of Applying has worked with 1000+ applicants to top graduate schools and helped them earn over $12.3 million in merit-based scholarships since 2010. Kaneisha loves to speak to people about the following: best practices for service-based businesses; pros, cons, and strategies for applying to grad school; bootstrapping; recruiting and managing millennials; recruiting and managing a remote team; strategies for maintaining and increasing profitability. Videos of Kaneisha: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3D7VvVATE2-HgYA7Hyh1Dw

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Events featuring Kaneisha Grayson
Events featuring Kaneisha Grayson