Inzozi Nziza was opened by the theater director Odile Gakire Katese. She met Alexis Miesen and Jennie Dundas, co-founders of Blue Marble Ice Cream in Brooklyn, New York, and formed a partnership with them to open the shop in 2010. “An ice-cream shop, Katese proposed, might help to put the human pieces back together by rebuilding spirits, hopes and family traditions,” Miesen says. At the start, Miesen and Dundas owned the shop in partnership with its staff and had shares in the business, which is a cooperative and non-profit. They did not set financial targets, but waited for 18 months before they transferred their shares to the women, who had by then proved their business credentials.
Who founded Blue Marble Ice Cream?
Alexis Miesen and Jennie Dundas Odile Gakire Katese A partnership of ice cream store workers A group of social activists