Dory Aine ’24
Management, Finance

Dory Aine ’24 is no stranger to transitions under tough circumstances. As a teenager, he came to the United States from Haiti speaking little English. Before long, friends who grew up speaking English were learning new vocabulary from him.
He didn’t stop there. Fascinated by computers, he picked up coding languages such as HTML, Python, C++, and Java. He began reverse engineering video games as a hobby.
Dory appreciates the way that his classes at Providence College teach him both the technical skills he needs to be a successful entrepreneur as well as the critical and creative thinking skills to understand and shape the bigger picture.
“Every professor I’ve had at PC has influenced me. Many of my business professors made careers in what they’re teaching. They’re not just teaching from books,” he said.
Dory works on campus for the Help Desk, troubleshooting computer issues for students, faculty, and staff. He also is a Real Estate Edge Fellow with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, which helps students across the country develop interview skills, set personal development goals, and explore corporate opportunities.
As a student at Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School in Providence, Dory was a popular Instagram content creator. When the software company Luni approached him about promoting their personal fitness app Fitness Coach, he saw entrepreneurial potential. In addition to promoting products to millions of followers across 10 accounts, he went into business creating and deploying social media ads. He sold his successful business, Sweep Media, before graduating.
Also while in high school, Dory was an advocate for financial literacy education in Rhode Island, testifying before the Rhode Island General Assembly in favor of a bill to make financial literacy a high school graduation requirement. Governor Dan McKee signed the bill into law in June 2021.
A campus tour set his heart on Providence College.
“Looking out the windows of the business school, I could see myself here. I wanted to be here,” he said.
He was so impressed by his tour guides that he applied to join Friars Club, the college’s premier service organization, at the first chance he could, and was accepted.
Beginning college as a first-generation student in August 2020 during a global pandemic and under strict public health protocols was a challenge, but Dory blossomed socially. “You know everyone,” his friends regularly tell him as he greets peers and professors on campus.
As a sophomore, Dory participated in a virtual town hall hosted by CNBC on improving financial literacy education in the United States featuring U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, Ed.D. He also was a social media associate for Meg & Munro, a marketing and communications agency for beauty and lifestyle brands.
He enjoys Friars men’s basketball games and intramural sports, especially soccer, and dreams of winning a coveted intramural champion T-shirt.
“We always end up in second place. But this is our semester,” he said.
Learn More:
- Dory studies in the Providence College School of Business
- Learn more about Clubs and Organizations at PC.
- Dory is an MLK Scholar. For more than 50 years, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship has supported a community of Friars of color.
- Providence College has one of the nation’s top intramural athletics programs.