Collette Divitto
Collette Divitto | |
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![Packages of Collettey's Cookies with information on Divitto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Collette_Divitto's_"Amazing_Cookie".png) The packaging of the "Amazing Cookie" from Collettey's Cookies | |
| Born | 4 October 1990 |
| Occupations | Entrepreneur and disability rights activist |
| Known for | Founder of Collettey's Cookies |
Collette Divitto (born October 4, 1990) is an entrepreneur and disability rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the founder of Collettey's Cookies.
Early life
[edit]Divitto has Down syndrome. She graduated from Clemson University in South Carolina in 2013.[1]
Career
[edit]Collettey's Cookies was founded in 2015, with help from her mother Rosemary Alfredo and sister Blake, after failing to find paid employment.[1] Her first retail account was Golden Goose Market, a store in her neighborhood, the North End. The store was selling 100 bags of Collettey's Cookies within the first week.[2] After a TV news segment about the company in the winter of 2016, which was amplified via social media, sales increased.[3][4] In 2018, represented the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress at the United Nations as a star ambassador.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 Kurland, Ann Trieger (January 30, 2017). "When this entrepreneur with Down syndrome couldn't find work at a bakery, she started her own". The Boston Globe. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Boston Business Owner With Down Syndrome Receives Orders For Thousands Of Cookies". CBS News. December 1, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2025.
- ↑ "Cookie orders roll in at business owned by woman with Down syndrome". CBS News. December 2, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Tejada, Chloe (January 19, 2017). "Rejection Made This Baker With Down Syndrome Open Her Own Cookie Shop". HuffPost. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ↑ "'Collettey's Cookies' Founder Speaking At UN For World Down Syndrome Day". CBS News. March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 28, 2025.
External sources
[edit]- Living people
- Clemson University alumni
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- People with Down syndrome
- 1990 births
- 21st-century American businesswomen
- American activists with disabilities
- American disability rights activists
- Activists from Boston
- Civil rights activists from Massachusetts
- Activists with intellectual disabilities