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Cynthia Boon Highlight
Failing is not the end of you. You can always try again, you can always reinvent, you can always go for the next thing that you want.
About Cynthia
- I grew up in Ghana and came to the U.S. when I was 16 years old as part of an exchange program.
- I attended Texas Southern University with a scholarship—I had been living in Pennsylvania at the time and really wanted to move somewhere warm.
- Started out studying engineering, but quickly realized it wasn’t for me and transferred to the business school and majored in finance.
- We were about to enter the recession when I graduated, so advisors were pushing careers in accounting—I joined NABA (National Association of Black Accountants) and got a job at Ernst & Young.
- I left Ernst & Young to start a clothing line with a friend—that dream didn’t work out, but I worked at Nordstrom in the meantime and gained valuable skills in their management program.
- When I went back into accounting, I was performing audits day-to-day, but I kept up with a lot of my side projects, like selling art.
- I got a job at Live Nation and loved auditing for the entertainment industry, so my side projects took the back burner while I focused on building something stable and long-term.
- I’m still working for Live Nation and have worked my way up to internal audit manager—I love my job, but working in fashion is still in the back of my mind and maybe I’ll try again one day.
