For Keona Smith, Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences junior and owner of Kreations by Keona, owning a bakery was inevitable.<\/p>\n
From drawing bakery designs and coming up with names as a young girl to selling cookies to her mother\u2019s friends while in high school, Smith\u2019s entrepreneurial spirit ultimately led her to Purdue\u2019s White Lodging-J.W. Marriott, Jr. School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":44077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2108,1174,263,2114,2110,2111,261,2107,2109,2113,240,592],"class_list":["post-44076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hospitality-and-tourism-management","tag-bakery","tag-black-tie-dinner","tag-college-of-health-and-human-sciences","tag-disney-college-program","tag-entrepreneurship-and-innovation","tag-exploratory-studies","tag-hospitality-and-tourism-management","tag-keona-smith","tag-kreations-by-keona","tag-launch-hospitality-immersion-program","tag-purdue-university","tag-white-lodging-j-w-marriott-jr-school-of-hospitality-and-tourism-management"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n