Design Your Brand With Canva

Canva is a graphic design platform, used to create social media graphics, presentations, posters, documents, and other visual content. The app includes templates for users to use. The platform is free to use and offers paid subscriptions like Canva Pro and Canva for Enterprise for additional functionality.

Workshop description: (one-hour instruction, followed by one-hour hands-on design session)

• Introduction to Canva Learn the ins and outs of Canva & what’s NEW on Canva
• Build your Brand with Canva: See and learn from other case studies
• Creative Time on Canva: More customization options are available when you build your own brand kit, including being able to choose your own fonts and colors are included. You will be given the opportunity to put your new skills to use during this course.

Akosua Acheamponmaa Nwala: Director of NSU Innovation Center

Akosua has helped entrepreneurs, innovators, and support services including George Mason University and Old Dominion University to establish their vision into tangible resources and platforms in Hampton Roads.

She got her start at Old Dominion University where she worked with its various entrepreneurial programs to help build and grow a community of high-growth, high-impact businesses. She's the creator of #AStartupsRightSteps, an online course that helps entrepreneurs avoid wasting money and resources by making the right moves.

She's helped her clients save up to five figures in less than 30 days of training with her. She created #AStartupsRightSteps to help people turn their ideas and business models into solutions customers will pay for over and over again.