NKU student-entrepreneur makes the shoes of your sneakerhead dreams

The first time Isaiah Kelly sat down in his garage with a pair of secondhand Nikes and a paint kit from Walmart, money wasn’t on his mind. The former all-state football player, fresh off a summer job at Shoe Carnival and heading into his freshman year at Northern Kentucky University, wanted to create something special — something that looked good. $10,000 says he succeeded. When Kelly graduates from NKU in May, it’ll be as a business owner with clients all over the planet.