AddRan Heart of TCU with Saria Hawkins-Banda

Open to AddRan Majors and Minors

Are you interested in entrepreneurship, manifesting your purpose, and exploring the value of your liberal arts degree? Come visit with Saria Hawkins-Banda, Founder/CEO of Manifest Your Purpose, on Oct. 18th. from 12-1:30 pm in SCHAR 1011. Lunch is provided. Please register here if you plan to attend!
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This event is open to all AddRan majors and minors.

The AddRan College of Liberal Arts is the historic, academic, and cultural heart of TCU. Heart of TCU is a collective for anyone majoring or minoring in AddRan, especially BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, First Generation, Transfer, and International Students. This fall, Heart of TCU events connect students with diverse leaders within and beyond TCU sharing their path from a liberal arts major to professional fields including law, entrepreneurship, and academia. Featured guests will reflect on finding purpose in their careers and the value of the liberal arts for the public good.

Saria Hawkins-Banda is the formidable Founder/CEO of Manifest Your Purpose. She is the epitome of a mompreneur and takes great pride in running her quickly growing company while raising her two children with her husband Lewis. Saria is an avid planner and loves helping teach others to plan with purpose by using her chic and functional stationery! Moreover, she aims to sprinkle a little #BlackGirlMagic everywhere she goes by making products that show off the beauty and multidimensionality of Black women! Her personal mission is to remind Black women that they deserve to be celebrated simply because of their existence and she won’t stop until that’s the standard!

Manifest Your Purpose is a luxury stationery and office accessories company with a mission to celebrate the beauty and multidimensionality of Black women by creating products that allow them to see themselves reflected in items they use every single day! By letting our light shine, we give others permission to do the same!

Educational and Professional Background:

Saria Hawkins-Banda has a Bachelor’s of Political Science from Texas Christian University and was a diversity fellow at Texas A&M University where she received her Master’s of Public Administration from The Bush School of Government and Public Service. She worked for almost a decade as a project manager in the education technology sector where she led teams that built e-learning infrastructures for universities in the U.S., South Africa, Australia, South America and the UK.