Kent ’99 Women’s Veteran’s Business Enterprise of the Year

Barbara Jozwik Kent ’99 was the recipient of the Women’s Veteran’s Business Enterprise of the Year presented by the National Veteran-Owned Business Association (NaVOBA). Kent immigrated to the United States from Poland as a child in 1988. Watching her mother perform strenuous physical work to put food on the table, she learned that education and determination equaled success. Kent and her sister Joanna Serra started Birdy Boutique, a certified women-and-disabled-veteran-owned online children’s boutique, in 2013. Kent was Birdy Boutique’s first designer and maker of the car seat poncho, a blanket-type covering that a child can wear over their seat belts and exceed National Highway Traffic Safety Administration guidelines. Read more.