Veronika Scott is an American social entrepreneur and CEO and founder of The Empowerment Plan, a Detroit-based humanitarian organization.
Scott was born on June 27, 1989, in Orange, California, but was raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a town just outside of Detroit.
In the fall of 2010, in response to a class assignment sponsored by Project H to design something to fill a social need,[4] Scott reached out to the homeless community in Detroit.
After five months of working closely with the individuals at a local homeless shelter, she had designed a heat-trapping jacket that can transform into a warm and weather-resistant sleeping bag.
At the end of the semester, Scott continued to work with the homeless population to create other prototypes and to improve the quality and design of the jacket.