Press &
Speaking
Kettia Etienne Ming is a Haitian immigrant, entrepreneur, writer, and cultural leader. She brings a rare and specific perspective to conversations about entrepreneurship, race, resilience, and what it actually takes to start over after a very public fall.
She is available for keynotes, panels, book club conversations, university events, and media interviews.
Media & Speaking
Speaking Topics
For speaking inquiries, contact kettia@evergreenhousepress.com
What Kettia
Speaks About
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Entrepreneurship & Exit Strategy
What nobody tells you about selling a business you built from nothing — the emotional weight, the legal exposure, and the identity shift that no one prepares you for.
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Non-Compete Clauses & Founder Rights
The legal traps waiting for entrepreneurs after acquisition. Drawing from her own experience being sued by the company that acquired her business.
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Black Women in Business
Succeeding in systems that were never designed for your success — and what happens when that success itself becomes perceived as a threat.
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Strategic Bankruptcy
Choosing survival over surrender when the odds are stacked against you. Reframing bankruptcy not as failure but as a deliberate and strategic act of self-preservation
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Presence as Strategy
How staying in the moment becomes the most radical act of resilience. The mile you are in is the only one that matters — and learning to run it is the whole work.
Contact
Bio for Press Use
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Evergreen House Press
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May 5, 2026
About
Kettia Ming
Kettia Etienne Ming is a Haitian immigrant, entrepreneur, writer, and cultural leader based in New York. She founded Smarter Toddler, a Manhattan-based childcare company that grew from a single basement location to four thriving centers before being acquired by Bright Horizons in a multimillion-dollar deal.
Her experience navigating the sale, a high-stakes legal battle, and strategic bankruptcy became the foundation for her debut memoir, Run the Mile You’re In: One Founder’s Journey Through Success, Loss, and Reinvention (Evergreen House Press, May 2026).
Kettia currently serves as Executive Director of Black Theatre United, where she works at the intersection of art, activism, and institutional change. She lives in New York.
Run the Mile You’re In
Kettia Etienne Ming
The Book
Run the Mile
You’re In
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Run the Mile You’re In: One Founder’s Journey Through Success, Loss, and Reinvention
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Kettia Etienne Ming
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Evergreen House Press
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May 5, 2026
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Memoir / Business / Entrepreneurship
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“Emotionally forceful without being tidy, unusually specific, and carried by scenes vivid enough to withstand the repetitions.” — NetGalley, 4/5 Stars