South Side Innovation Center Expands
The South Side Innovation Center (SSIC), a community-based microenterprise incubator operated by the Whitman School, expanded its space to accommodate seven new small businesses, two anchor tenants and more virtual members. The SSIC had trained more than 1,600 entrepreneurs by 2009, and helped launch 12 new businesses in 2008 alone. At the time of its expansion, it was incubating 31 new resident and virtual ventures; the new space would enable the SSIC to cultivate even more home-grown businesses and create more jobs in the underserved neighborhood of Syracuse, New York.
The expansion was funded in part by New York State through Assemblywoman Joan Christensen. Current tenants of the SSIC in 2009 included:
- The Stand – a monthly community newspaper for neighbors, businesses and friends in the South Side of Syracuse.
- Bluetree Studios – a fair trade business that sells fairly and responsibly-traded products from abroad
- FYM Logic – an electrical technology services company
Kerri is director of communications and media relations for the Whitman School. She is responsible for managing all internal and external communications with students, faculty, staff, alumni, members of the business community and other key stakeholders.After receiving her B.A. from State University of New York at Geneseo, she went on to earn her M.S. in communications management from Syracuse’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she has served as an adjunct professor in the public relations department since 2004.
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