Dajuan Wiggins is the Founder, CEO & Executive Director of the Youth Business Initiative (YBI). He strategically built the YBI Team with Business Owners, Managing Members, and Entrepreneurs who can share their business intelligence, professional distinctive competence, and community values with the YBI youth. As a long time resident of Norwalk, CT, he is a neighborhood & community mobilizer working nonstop to increase the level of youth engagement through youth development programs. Dajuan prepares the youth with workforce readiness and business development knowledge, skills, and abilities. He believes the youth and their future of work requires entrepreneur-like tools and skills.

 

Dajuan served as a Board Member at Serving all Vessels Equally (S.A.V.E), and was a former Community Organizer for Katal in Hartford CT, focusing on mass incarceration and harm reduction. While running the Youth Business Initiative, Dajuan is also a partnered business owner of The Gold Room Lounge located in Norwalk, CT. When he isn’t managing his business ventures, he enjoys spending time with his children, watching sports, and helping others develop their business ideas.