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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern


A woman in a floral shirt holds a pink circle with pliers at a desk. Several colors of dyes and silver earring materials sit in front of her.

Q&A: NU alumna Kourtney Kinchen on her nonprofit passion project, Encircled Jewelry

May 24, 2021

A&E When a global pandemic disrupted her gap year before law school, Kourtney Kinchen (Weinberg ‘20) started an online jewelry shop. Inspired by Northwestern student-run Friends Who Earring, Kinchen...

Koster and Durudogan make earrings. The two SESP sophomores founded Friends Who Earring.

Friends Who Earring together, stay together

February 5, 2020

A&E When SESP sophomores Claire Koster and Cate Durudogan were developing their earring business, they went through a lot of potential names. Possibilities included Claire’s Ear Party, Smiling Ear...

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