A Culver-Stockton College, C-SC, alumni and entrepreneur is making it easier for minority students to get access to health and beauty products.

Radazaih Whittington will be bringing a Royal Horizon Beauty Supply Vending Machine to campus in January 2023.

C-SC is a predominantly white institution, in a rural area, which leaves minority students with limited access to beauty, skin, hair, and health products on campus. While attending C-SC, Whittington said she experienced this struggle first-hand and now hopes to combat it with the customized vending machine.

"Trying to find health and beauty products was always a hassle for me,” Whittington said about her time at C-SC. “It made me feel like I had no sense of belonging. I wanted to resolve two key issues: access and inconvenience. That’s why I founded Royal Horizon Vending: to make sure everyone knows that they belong and don’t have to drive miles away to access the products they need to make them feel at their best, all of the time.”

The vending machine will help prevent students from needing to find transportation to and from stores farther away from campus to find supplies, Whittington said.

Whittington added that she will donate funding to the C-SC Black Student Union each school year in support of minority students. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Media Communication in 2017.