Iroqit founder Melanie Squires is prioritizing a hands-on, community-focused approach to business.

Iroqit, a company that makes custom rugby, hockey and baseball uniforms, was started because its founders noticed a persistent problem while coaching a girls’ rugby team based on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve. Melanie Squires and her daughter, Meagan Wilson, who are part of the Turtle Clan of the Mohawk Nation, were noticing that their players’ kits were not fitting right.

“I would be at games, and the girls, after going into a scrum, would be getting up and adjusting their shorts – pulling [them] down from their thigh and stuff like that,” says Ms. Squires. “I was like, ‘That’s really taking away from what they should be doing.’”

So, using the moccasin-making experience and b

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