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Class E Podcast


The Class–E Podcast hosts conversations with leaders in innovation and entrepreneurship and sheds light on all the amazing accomplishments of students, faculty, and alumni in the Furman University Family.

We strive to help innovative thinkers share their stories, their expertise, and experience in hopes of creating an innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Our mission is to educate and inspire our listeners to engage in innovative thinking, connect with Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship and launch their own ventures.

Aug 26, 2021

In this last episode in the Class E Podcast special series Pathfinders in Purple, we talk with Furman Music Dept. Professor, Omar Carmenates. He shares how endorsement partnerships he's created in the music industry, have elevated Furman Percussion to the international stage despite a world pandemic. We talk about how music is inherently innovative and his vision to take his students to the next level. 

Guest: Omar Carmenates

Host: Mary Sturgill

Producers: Emma Kerr and Lenae Jones