Laura Thompson ’09 has spent the past decade working on radical innovations aimed at solving the world’s toughest problems. Laura was an early product lead at Google X, where she drove product strategy for science fiction-sounding technologies including self driving cars, smart contact lenses, and delivery drones. While at X, she spread the team’s learning in […]
Join Deb Mills-Scofield ‘82, Mentoring Maven with the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship for her first-ever advisee meet-up. You might know her well for her love of blue lobsters, a unique, one-of-a-kind sea creature. The dozens of students she mentors she sees as unique individuals and hopes you can all come together to network as well […]
Changes in U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice Lecture and Q & A with Peter Roberts '83 Peter Roberts ’83, is Founder and Principal of the immigration law firm Roberts Immigration Law Group. His clients include multinationals, entrepreneurs, founders, investors, start-ups, and start-up accelerators in all fields, including Y Combinator and YC founders. Peter will discuss […]
Rishabh is the founder of Gradly. Gradly streamlines immigration logistics for international students by bringing student loans, health insurance, US bank accounts, new phone lines, currency exchange & other services that international students need in a single app. Gradly's app eliminates lengthy paperwork, wait times, numerous fees & non-obvious decisions at every step for incoming international students, resulting […]
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, PhD Author of Transnational Migration and the New Subjects of Work: Transmigration, Hybrids and Cosmopolitans. She also has two forthcoming books titled, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: A Critical Gender Perspective (2020) and “A Transnational Approach to Entrepreneurial Ecosystems.” Linda Scott, PhD Author of “The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women” coming out […]
Epimonia founder Mohamed Malim will give a talk on his social enterprise as part of the lectureship on Borders organized by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Mohamed Malim is an innovator, social entrepreneur, humanitarian, and visionary. Above all else, he is a proud refugee working to bring change to the world. Mohamed graduated from the […]
Celebrating a decade in the solar industry, Dana Clare Redden is a passionate solar professional dedicated to the development of distributed generation solar globally. Growing up in a small rust-belt town in western Pennsylvania, the environmental impacts of fossil fuels shaped her perspective, particularly for disenfranchised communities and those most vulnerable. Realizing this need for […]
Maria Kasparian ('05) is the Executive Director of Edesia, a non-profit social enterprise founded in RI in 2009. The North Kingstown-based organization has the mission to help treat and prevent malnutrition in the world’s most vulnerable populations. As part of their mission, they manufacture and distribute a range of peanut/dairy/soy-based ready-to-use therapeutic and supplementary foods […]
Rishabh is the founder of Gradly. Gradly streamlines immigration logistics for international students by bringing student loans, health insurance, US bank accounts, new phone lines, currency exchange & other services that international students need in a single app. Gradly's app eliminates lengthy paperwork, wait times, numerous fees & non-obvious decisions at every step for incoming international students, resulting […]
David Chanley ’96 spent twenty years advising management teams and boards of Technology companies on a wide range of M&A and corporate finance strategies and transactions and is now a principal investor in Technology companies. In 2016, David co-founded White Hat Capital Partners LP, a private equity-style investment firm based in New York that makes […]
