GRAD-preneur

GRAD-preneur is a weekly series that highlights some of the outstanding School of Media and Creative Arts graduates who have successfully started their own businesses. This series shares the stories of our graduates and their time at our school, as well as provides valuable advice about being an entrepreneur.

Graduate Spotlight: Kimberly Persona

Kimberly Persona attended the Children’s Media program, and now owns and runs Balloon House Productions – a boutique production company devoted to creating entertaining, meaningful media for kids, including a Daytime Emmy nominated series called Miss Persona which airs daily on Treehouse TV. “We also produce a web series called Space Dragon and Kim for Shaftesbury Kids. Previously, we produced a web series/feature film called Princess Sparkly Butt and The Hot Dog Kid for Teletoon, which was also an award-winning Fringe play. I started pitching series about 11 years ago,” Kimberly shares.

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Graduate Entrepreneur Stories

  • Jeremy Cyril and Michael T. Foley

    Children's Media
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  • Frederico Neumann

    Interactive Media Management
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