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Joyce uloma Ikpeme, is the founder & CEO of triplejstitches, a clothing brand created in 2015. A graduate of Adult and Community Education Rivers state university of Science & Technology port Harcourt, Rivers state Nigeria. She got married in 2011 & moved to united states in 2012 where she put her sewing/fashion designs dreams into practice. She started sewing for others and started making some little income but it was difficult making enough to pay bills. She got an office job but never gave up on her passion for Sewing believing things will get better. In 2013, she and her husband welcomed their first child, a baby girl. She was so pretty that Joyce quit her job to concentrate taking care of her baby. As a nursing mother, she still kept herself very resourceful by attending some online fashion school which upgraded her sewing skills and fashion business but patronage was still scarce. In 2015, she had her second child followed by third child in 2016.