Since completing her undergraduate degree at Brown University and a Masters at the University of Cape Town, Elspeth has coordinated global student internships, driven sustainable solution initiatives for numerous NGOs (both in the USA and South Africa) and led community impact programs. She is passionate about transnational learning and cross-cultural experiences. Recently, she has been […]

Samanee recently graduated from Brown with a History major but has always had a hand in entrepreneurship. She’s been a student director of EP as well as a PEIR at the Nelson Center. While at Brown, she worked at 5 start-ups including Slack, and she’s done roles across product management, operations and marketing. She works […]

HOW I FORGED MY OWN ENTREPRENEURIAL PATHWAY, FROM THE SOVIET BLOC TO BROWN TO WALL STREET TO FIN TECH Entrepreneurial careers can take many forms and endure different life cycles. Meet Alla Bashenko BA-MA ’98, who left her home in the Soviet Ukraine with just $100 in her pocket having been awarded a full scholarship to Brown. […]

Synapse is a cohort program that brings innovators together in the fall and culminates in a paid trip to New York City, January 15-18, 2020 (travel, lodging, food included) with 15 other Brown and RISD students to visit the greatest startup ecosystem on the East Coast. Engage one-on-one with leading innovators, inventors, and investors and […]

Join us for a talk with Stuart Weitzman, the shoe designer, entrepreneur and founder behind the shoe company, Stuart Weitzman. Stuart will share how he took advantage of risks, made use of unfettered imagination and unique approach to marketing, and created partnerships both inside an outside of the company resulting in creating a global brand for his comfortable […]

Developer Frank Liu reveals the business and financing strategy behind Post Houston, a billion-dollar project to bring housing, arts, retail, and a rooftop organic farm to a disused post office site. Liu will open his urban development policy playbook, a rare opportunity to see how a large-scale innovative development in a major city gets done. […]

Promise and Perils of New Technologies and Big Data for Human Rights and Humanitarianism in the 21st Century In place of hosting a Founder Friday event, we encourage you to attend one of our campus partner's upcoming events! The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies is hosting its Inaugural Symposium and Reception. We want to highlight one […]

Insight Partners is a global venture capital firm based in New York City. Insight write checks anywhere from $10m Series A’s up to $300m later stage rounds. They have raised 10 funds over the past 20 years, invested in over 300 companies and had more than 40 IPOs. Prior investments include TurnitIn, Canvas, Twitter, Alibaba, […]