For Keona Smith, Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences junior and owner of Kreations by Keona, owning a bakery was inevitable.

From drawing bakery designs and coming up with names as a young girl to selling cookies to her mother’s friends while in high school, Smith’s entrepreneurial spirit ultimately led her to Purdue’s White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM).