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2021 Research Conference: The Entrepreneurship You Don’t See: Bringing Visibility to New Majority Founders

Brown University’s Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s second research conference, The Entrepreneurship You Don’t See: Bringing Visibility to New Majority Founders, brought together over three hundred and fifty interdisciplinary scholars alongside policymakers and practitioners from around the world who research, practice, or engage in policymaking around entrepreneurship that brings to the forefront the intersections of anti-Black racism, women, refugees, immigrants, and allyship. A major part of the conference engaged in critical discussions on these issues, and in particular, anti-Black and structural racism. 

Two inaugural scholarly awards were presented at the conference. The Emerging Scholar in Entrepreneurship Award was conferred to Courtney McCluney, Ph.D. and The Lifetime Achievement Award was awarded to Juliet E.K. Walker, Ph.D.

For those who were unable to attend, the recorded proceedings are available to the public now on Brown University’s YouTube Channel.

Publications by Conference Participants 

Mehrsa Baradaran, JD

How the Other Half Banks, Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (2015)

The Color of Money: Black Banking and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017)

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D.

Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work Transmigrants, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans (2021)

Zulema Valdez, Ph.D.

The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise (2011)

Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream (2016)

Jody Aguis Vallejo, Ph.D.

Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class (2012)

Juliet E.K. Walker, Ph.D.

The History of Black Business in America: Capitalism, Race, Entrepreneurship: Volume 1, To 1865 (2009)

The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship would like to extend our appreciation to the conference participants: 

The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship would like to extend our appreciation to the conference participants: Mehrsa Baradaran, J.D., Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine Law; Natalie Madeira Cofield, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Women’s Business Ownership, United States Small Business Administration; Ashley Gomez PH.D. (candidate), MPH, Doctoral Student in Sociology, Brown University; Courtney McCluney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior, Director, Center for Migration, Demography, and Population Studies, ILR School at Cornell University; Kristen McNeil, Ph.D. (candidate) in Sociology, Brown University; Jennifer Nazareno, Ph.D., Barrett Hazeltine Professor of Practice, Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Brown University; Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D., Professor of Practice, School of Engineering, Brown University; Taura Taylor, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Oglethorpe University; Zulema Valdez, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Merced; Jody Aguis Vallejo,Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty, University of Southern California, Merced; Juliet E.K. Walker, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin; Ieva Zumbyte, Ph.D. (candidate), Ph.D. candidate, Sociology Graduate Program in Development Fellow Population Studies and Training Center Fellow, Hazeltine Fellow 2020-2021; Juliet E.K. Walker, Ph.D., Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin; Ieva Zumbyte, Ph.D. (candidate), Ph.D. candidate, Sociology Graduate Program in Development Fellow Population Studies and Training Center Fellow, Hazeltine Fellow 2020-2021

What’s Next

The journal Gender, Work and Organization (GWO) (Prof. Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, co-editor-in-chief), will sponsor a special issue based on the conference theme in order to create and support knowledge production on this domain to be published in 2022. Check back with us for details.