CakeLove: Find Your Passion, Follow Your Calling
Speaker:
Warren Brown
18 Feb 2013
8:00 PM
Great Hall, Memorial Union
Warren Brown, former host of the Food Network's Sugar Rush, is the owner of CakeLove and the Love Cafe. His organization now includes seven retail storefronts in the Washington, DC area, and he has published several cookbooks: CakeLove: How to Bake Cakes from Scratch, United Cakes of America and his latest, CakeLove in the Morning. Taking an unconventional career path, Brown left his job as an attorney for the federal government to start his bakery in 2002. Passionate about cake and the happiness that it brings, he takes time to speak with students and rising entrepreneurs about business development and finding one's passion.
Warren Brown graduated from Brown University with a BA in History and from the George Washington University with a Juris Doctor and a master's in Public Health. He has been recognized for his entrepreneurial spirit by local and national media including The Oprah Winfrey Show, TODAY, NPR, CNN, and Inc. magazine, and national advertisement campaigns for American Express and Dell computers. He is a member of the board of Kid Power-DC, a local non-profit organization that conducts after school arts programs for DC youth. By 2006, Warren Brown was named the Small Business Person of the Year by the Small Business Administration.