Maci Peterson Possess the Startup "Do It All" Sprit

This article by Ronda Racha Penrice originally appeared in the 2016 winter edition of the Spelman Messenger.Coming to Spelman from the mostly white Chapman University in Orange, California, as an exchange student during the 2007–2008 school year was certainly a change of pace for Maci Peterson.
The tech entrepreneur has received a great deal of buzz for conceptualizing the app “On Second Thought” that “unsends” text messages.
As an entrepreneur and innovator, Peterson won a $50,000 award in July 2015 for the first Women Startup Challenge Pitch Competition to fund her app. Spelman greatly impacted the liberal arts-minded Peterson, who founded and served as editor-in-chief of her own magazine for Black women, Mwari Magazine, while in college.
“Spelman taught me who I am, as an African-American woman in general, but it also taught me my role as an African-American woman in the world, which is something I had never thought about,” said Peterson, a brand manager for Marriott International. Those lessons, she insisted, instilled her with a confidence that fuels her to this day.“Spelman taught me that I’m not the next so and so... It’s my job to be the best me I can be.”