Career Cafe: Entrepreneurship Featuring Danya Sherman, ESIA BA’19

Join our virtual Career Café to hear from our ESIA Alumni Danya Sherman, Founder of KNO Corporation in a discussion facilitated by GWU's Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. This conversation will highlight Danya's career journey and the intersection between ESIA and entrepreneurship. Danya Sherman is an entrepreneur passionate about combining human rights and technology innovation to create lasting, sustainable, social change. She is the founder and President of Kno Corporation, a company that works to inclusively empower, educate, and advocate against drug facilitated sexual assault and crime so everyone remains in the know against drink spiking. KnoCorp created Knope, a discreet, gender-inclusive detection device for rape drug presence disguised in the aesthetic of a stick of gum. Say Knope to drink spiking. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs and Security Policy from The George Washington University, and a Master in Business Administration from Georgetown University. Sherman has participated in distinguished entrepreneurial fellowship programs with Halcyon House, The Global Good Fund, Georgetown University, Future Founders, Kairos, CVS, and Target. She has been featured among Washington Life’s Technology Hall of Fame, DC Inno’s 25 Under 25 Brightest Young Innovators, Toyota’s Mother of Invention, and as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur.