FIU’s Ratcliffe Art and Design Incubator welcomes new fellows (includes video story)

FIU’s Ratcliffe Art and Design Incubator introduced its new fall semester cohort of fellows. Cohort 8 will learn to pitch business project ideas, brand and establish a business. The fellowship lasts for one year. There’s a second-year option for qualified candidates.

The Ratcliffe Art and Design Incubator was founded in 2017 with a grant from the Phillip E. and Carole R. Ratcliffe Foundation. The foundation recently gifted an additional $2.5 million to FIU in 2020 for upcoming diverse and entrepreneurial leaders who promote innovative art and design within the community. 

“I saw a lot of need within the immigration reform space in the United States, in particular towards misinformation and disinformation,” said Eduardo Badal, a Cohort 8 fellow with a major in graphic design. “One of my biggest reasons why I wanted to start was to fill that void with immigrants that are coming into this country.”

For more information about the Ratcliffe Art and Design Incubator, click here.

Daniela Zulueta

Daniela Zulueta is pursuing her master’s degree in global strategic communications and graduated from FIU with a bachelor’s degree in digital broadcasting in 2023. She also holds an associate’s degree in journalism from Miami Dade College. Zulueta loves the city of Miami and aims to share the stories of the citizens who live here and all over the world. Zulueta runs a social media platform called @Lifestyle_Miami where she works with local businesses and does community-based work. She had a paid internship with Televisa Univisión as a Step Producer and worked as a stage manager at NBC6 South Florida & Telemundo51. Now, she is part of cohort 8 and has a fellowship at the FIU Ratcliffe where she can work on branding herself and post-production of a podcast called Tech Conversations.