Starting at Arizona Western Junior College — a decision she deemed “perfect,” especially given her uncertainty about her future at that time — Fry, a 43-year-old Black woman from Arizona, went on to earn a bachelor’s in psychology from the University of Montevallo; a master’s in justice administration from Tiffin University; a second master’s in applied arts and sciences from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro; and, finally, a Ph.D. at Michigan State University. At this last school, she immersed herself in sports geography and focused on subjects she genuinely loves: the experiences of Black women who are professional athletes and maps.
Now, Fry is the founder of Coordle, a B2B tech company with a namesake app coordinating group travel, and cofounder of Hyreable, a Baltimore-based career development company building a database of “5,000 Black or brown people” in sports. In addition to her entrepreneurship, she is a public speaker who completed the 2022-2023 Baltipreneurs Accelerator. Under her leadership, Coordle was an early-stage finalist in DC Startup Week’s annual pitch competition last year and was one of 12 companies chosen for Techstars Detroit this fall.
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