Rochelle Adkinson

With two decades of broadcast experience, Rochelle Adkinson is a producer, writer, voice and on-air talent, and Emmy® Award winner who has worked on a variety of productions from local, small-budget programs to larger-scale, nationally syndicated shows. Based in the Detroit area, Rochelle has a passion for telling the stories that matter. The daughter of a pair of entrepreneurs in northeast Ohio, she’s particularly excited now to be telling the stories of small business owners and entrepreneurs through the StartupNation program, "HomeGrown," which she co-created. This new series will explore the small businesses that are the heart of their communities and will take a look at the successes and challenges they’ve pushed through to get where they are.