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<h3>Disrupt the Midwest</h3>
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November 7 - 8<span style="font-family: Roboto-LightItalic;">
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<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/TechNexus/@41.882564,-87.6374246,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xe4423cbdbedf304d!8m2!3d41.882564!4d-87.6374246">Virtual Event</a></span></p>
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<p>Forge is the largest student-run startup weekend in the midwest! Engage with venture capitalists, seasoned entrepreneurs, successful community members, and other top student startups from across the midwest.</p>
<p>Stay updated by following <a href="https://www.facebook.com/illinoisfounders/">Founders - Illinois Entrepreneurs</a> on Facebook!</p>
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<p>Building on 2 years of sucessful Forges this Virtual Edition of Forge will bring together top startups from over 18 Midwestern Universities. Participants will have the opportunity to listen to panels, speeches, and receive 1 on 1 mentoring from VCs and top Entrepreneurs. Organized Networking sessions will provide startups with networking time with other startups and industry professionals. </p>
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<h3 style="text-decoration: underline;">General</h3>
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<p>Meeting seasoned entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, members of the entrepreneurship community, and meeting other top student startups from across the Midwest. You’ll be meeting a diverse group of people and will have the opportunity to win prizes in the pitching competition.</p>
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<p>On November 8th, the pitching competition will take place. It will be split into preliminary rounds and final rounds, and selected startups will make it to the final round. There will be no allocated time during the weekend to work on your pitch, so come prepared!</p>
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<p>Nope! You do not have to pitch, but don’t give up the opportunity to win a prize!</p>
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<p>Last year, <a rhef="https://business.facebook.com/psyonicinc/">Psyonic</a> from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign won $1,000 cash and has since raised a seed round and launched the product.</p>
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<p>Feel free to email us at <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>
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<p>Any student startup or Individuals interested in entrepreneurship! Forge is open to all majors, ages, and Midwest schools. Forge‘s aim is venture growth and bringing the Midwest Entrepreneurship community together, so all Midwest student ventures and students are welcome.</p>
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<p>The application’s deadline is November 4th, and we will be sending out acceptances on a rolling basis. Everyone will hear back by November 5th.</p>
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<p>Get your business cards and pitch together, and prepare for a packed weekend! Also, tell your friends and check out our Facebook event and social media links to get updates. :)</p>
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<p>The event starts at 10 am on November 7th online and ends at 5 pm on November 8th.</p>
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<p>Participants should have Zoom and other software listed in the Info Email installed, while Attendees can watch the live stream from Youtube.</p>
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<p>This virtual edition of Forge allows for startups to bring unlimited attendees, but only up to 4 participants will have access to prizes, etc.</p>
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<h3>Sunday: <span>Pitching, Startup Showcase</span></h3>
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<h1 class="inner-header">2020 Speakers</h1>
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<p class="bio-description">Lucy Guo is a founding partner at Backend Capital, a venture fund that invests in brilliant engineers as early as possible. Previously, she co-founded Scale AI, which accelerates its customers' AI development by democratizing access to intelligent data. In her spare time, she's created apps that over 10 million people worldwide have used. </p>
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<p class="bio-description">Peter Piekarczyk is the co-founder of Draftbit: a tool that allows anyone to build native apps visually with almost no learning curve. Draftbit is built with ReasonML and has allowed his team to move quickly and effortlessly. He has experience in multiple programming languages from his work at Trunk Club and Foodboss. Peter loves to cycle, drink coffee and make music. He’s a huge fan of learning how to do new things. Peter was born in Chicago and speaks fluent Polish.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Taylor Elyse Morrison is the founder of Inner Workout. Taylor started her career at a Fortune 100 before moving to the world of startups. Today, she is on a mission to help others beat burnout through sustainable self-care practices. Taylor is a certified group fitness instructor and a certified 200 hr yoga teacher.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Dough is led by Victor Jones, former director of Trading and Operations at TD Ameritrade, lifelong innovator, and inspired storyteller. Victor has spent his entire 13-year finance career in service of retail investors. In his previous role, he spearheaded trading innovation initiatives and managed the client trading experience in platforms in both the United States and Asia.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Ananya Tiwari is the cofounder of SwaTaleem Foundation that works with underrepresented rural adolescent girls in India to enhance their educational outcomes through socio-emotional skills using human centered design. The work has won the 2020 Illinois Innovation Prize, 2020 YMCA Bailey fellowship, 2019 Illinois International Achievement Award and was part of iVenture 5.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Victor grew up in northwestern Indiana before moving to Chicago to study economics at the University of Chicago. Victor has a passionate history with startups, including a vending machine business and kick scooter company, along with being on the board of UChicago’s first student-run venture fund. A Kauffman Fellow (Class 22) and former leader in Hyde Park Angels, Victor founded M25 in 2015 and quickly grew it to become the most active venture firm in the Midwest. Victor lives with his wife and two kids on the South Side of Chicago and loves staying active with running, biking, swimming, backpacking and any euro-style board game (like Settlers of Catan).</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Yelena joined Jump in 2015 and leads investment opportunities in the digital media sector. Prior to joining Jump, Yelena was an investor with MK Capital, where she supported MK’s portfolio companies and invested in enterprise software, cloud computing and marketing technology. She was also an associate with McNally Capital, where she focused in energy and closed an investment in the clean energy space.
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<p class="bio-description">Pete Wilkins is a purpose-driven leader committed to creating a positive impact in the world. As a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, board member, and advisor, he has worked with some of the world’s best entrepreneurs and top venture capital firms to help purposefully grow their companies from seed investment into industry leaders. </p>
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<p class="bio-description">Chris Wu is an Associate at Impact Engine. Prior to joining in 2018, Chris was an engineering consultant at Arcadis, where he provided program management services for the City of Chicago’s Department of Water Management. Chris is a licensed Professional Engineer and LEED Accredited Professional with a long history of providing engineering services for the design and construction of green buildings. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently an MBA candidate at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, in their part-time program.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Mark Achler is Managing Director of MATH Venture Partners. Additionally, Mark teaches Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business. Prior to MATH, Mark was the Senior Vice President of New Business, Strategy and Innovation for Redbox. He is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded four companies as well being a partner in an earlier venture fund called Kettle Partners. Mark has an undergraduate degree in Social Studies Education from Purdue University and is a frequent speaker, resource and ardent champion for the entrepreneurial community.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">After 15 years as a leader in women and girl's philanthropy, Gerri is using her passion, skills and connections to provide more opportunities for women in tech. InvestHER Ventures will focus on funding female entrepreneurs seeking early stage capital. With a track record for empowering women and girls to reach their full potential, Gerri's mission is to create funding opportunities for women who are focused on technology enabled business services, data driven products, and disruptive solutions for large markets.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Jazmin Garcia serves as the Business Resource Manager for ChiBizHub at World Business Chicago (WBC). Serving as the primary contact for businesses and nonprofits, Jazmin also serves as the primary Spanish media representative, including Univision POSiBLE segments, to provide equitable resources to the Latinx/Hispanic business community. She is a Queer first-generation proud Mexican-American woman. Jazmin is a Social Impact and Nonprofit Leader at the Baumhart Center at Loyola University’s Quinlan School of Business, Emerging Leader of the Chicago Women in Philanthropy, former Public Policy Fellow with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of San Diego.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Katherine’s experience includes involvement with a variety of regulatory and reporting frameworks including US GAAP, and Uniform Guidance (formerly A-133). She’s collaborated with engagement teams to complete complex, multi-locational audit engagements, often with strict deadlines. Her experiences have given her a working knowledge of complex audit areas including purchase accounting, investments, pensions, derivatives, patient revenues, and contingencies.
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<p class="bio-description">Aahlad is a tech professional from Chicago. He got his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from UIC and went on to gain experience in Design, Manufacturing and Supply Chain. His expertise is in implementing new processes (such as Agile or Lean transformations) and will forever be a physics and math nerd. Outside of work, his main hobbies are dance and cooking.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Austin McCulloh is a 23-year-old entrepreneur who, by the age of 20, had already begun his executive career. He is the Principal Consultant & Founder of Austin McCulloh Advising, which is a human capital consulting firm that is on a mission to help sales professionals, such as financial advisors, insurance agents, & other entrepreneurs, grow their book of business & increase their income. Austin’s high energy, strong discipline, and intense drive make him the perfect fit for these professionals looking to take their career to the next level. Additionally, Austin managed just under half a million dollars in Assets Under Management (AUM) as a 21-year-old financial advisor, operated his first business, Supercorn Tutoring which taught English to over 700 Chinese children, and advised on the executive board for two, large finance organizations all while being a student at the University of Iowa.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Neelan studied ECE at the University of Illinois and graduated in December of 2018. While on campus Neelan co-founded two startups and led EntreCORPS as a partner. Neelan joined Human Capital as a Principal in 2019. Outside of work you can find him struggling to learn how to cook, listening to lots of music, and reading anything/everything about tech.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">"Founder, CTO @ Trala. Trala is a music education company and our first product is an app that teaches violin. We've raised $4.8M and teach thousands of students every day. Ask me about building product and hiring during the seed stage."</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Divyaditya Shrivastava is the CEO of Paladin Drones and a Thiel Fellow. He dropped out of college in 2018 to deploys autonomous drones to 911 calls, giving first responders a live overhead view of an emergency before they arrive. Divy loves building products and growing them to maturity, pad kee mao from Imm Thai @ Berkeley, and reading novels (his current favorite series is Red Rising from Pierce Brown).</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Connor is a security focused backend go developer. He founded Stackend Solutions 3 years ago, building custom SaaS and web scraping apps for startups.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Mitul Patel is an Electrical Engineer, consultant, product developer, entrepreneur, and innovator with 11 technology patents submitted to date. Mitul is currently President and CEO of a turnkey product development company, MP Consulting LLC, with 40 employees focusing on consumer technology, industrial sensing, medical devices, and home tech. </p>
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<p class="bio-description">Skilled product/project manager with 5+ years of experience in planning, executing, and evaluating projects in coordination with timelines and budgets, and building proactive teams in product. Founder and owner of Helios Threads, KLA Alum, OpenSymmetry Alum, & Advisor at Founders - Illinois Entrepreneurs.
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<p class="bio-description">Zoe a strategic innovation director manager and helps organizations figure out what are the right questions they need to ask. She serves as a confidential sounding board to help ventures think through where they are, where they ought to be, and what they need to do to get there.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Seasoned sales leader and entrepreneur with experience in building teams, go-to-market strategies, and play-books for high-growth technology startups. A demonstrated history of success in personal sales execution and managing explosive growth in teams and revenues for high trajectory organizations. He leverages his background in engineering and consulting to bring a unique combination of technical expertise and sales acumen to my teams and ventures.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Professional career reflects over 5 years of executive level management along with an additional 2 years of junior management with additional marketing, business analysis and investing also serving as key decision maker within start-up, entrepreneurial and expansion environments. He is the co-founder of Bit Capital Group, which is a blockchain security company providing end-to-end cryptocurrency mining management services.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Matthew is a cofounder and Head of Engineering at Atmos, a custom home-building marketplace. Previously, he was the first Data Engineer at Cameo, and Co-President at Founders UIUC. Matthew is passionate about improving the standard of living through building homes and cultivating communities. He advises and invests in early stage startups tackling deeply systemic and technically complex problems facing the world.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">As a recruitment professional, I strive to build the relationship with each and every candidate. My agenda is to find the right fit for both the organization and the individual. I am truly inspired when I can see careers blossom and there is a true passion for the job. My career path includes mentoring others who are launching their careers as well by providing advice and counsel from my experience transitioning into Human Resources.
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<p class="bio-description">Currently, I am consulting for the Melinda Gates-backed GET Cities initiative- launched in Chicago in 2020. As GET (Gender Equality in Tech) Cities' first hire in Chicago, I lead research initiatives and am developing the programmatic frameworks to be used for the GET Cities expansion nationally. Previously, I was a Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship consultant for the World Bank, working on various social entrepreneurship and data innovation projects. I am also a StartingBloc Social Innovation Fellow building on my passion to create significant social impact using market-based solutions for innovative projects across service delivery models.
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<p class="bio-description">As Illinois Ventures’ Senior Associate, Daniel sources investments, assists on diligence, and mentors entrepreneurs on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. His work takes him across campus seeing cutting edge research in nanotechnology, robotics, autonomy, and computing. Daniel also manages the Illinois Ventures internship program, where he gets to work with students passionate about venture capital.
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<p class="bio-description">Preeti Chalsani, PhD, serves as the director of industry partnerships for quantum information science in a joint position with the Polsky Center and the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE). In this role, Preeti seeks to build connections between industry and CQE member research institutions with the goal of advancing development of quantum information science and enabling technologies. She interfaces with CQE researchers and manages a portfolio of industry partners ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups to build strategic partnerships for research, knowledge and technology transfer, and workforce and ecosystem development. She engages the Polsky Center’s resources and network and the CQE’s technical expertise and talent to spur the creation and growth of new quantum information science ventures.
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<p class="bio-description">A public figure in the spheres of education, social activism, business, and media, Darnell is a native of East St. Louis and currently resides outside of Chicago. Along with his team, he has founded, co-founded, or served as a founding member of multiple organizations dedicated to promoting social justice, healthy communities, equitable outcomes, and the obliteration of oppressive systems and false stereotypes.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">David Altenburg is a Principal Software Engineer at Inventables, where he works to put desktop manufacturing capabilities into the hands of small businesses and entrepreneurs. He has over 19 years of software development experience in a variety of industries. He currently resides in Chicago.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Sarah Schram is Illinois Ventures' Analyst and Proof of Concept Coordinator. Sarah assists in investment diligence, deal sourcing, and university outreach and brings a valuable scientific background to the team. As the Proof of Concept Coordinator, Sarah works closely with faculty researchers, the Office of Technology Management and University stakeholders to enhance the exciting tech pipeline at UIC through commercialization grants.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Mark B. Goldstein is a business attorney who works with startups to help start and grow their companies and is an entrepreneur himself. Mark is an attorney at Latimer LeVay Fyock a full-service business law firm and is the co-founder of Firenze Italian Street Food, a restaurant in Chicago that is inspired by the city of Florence, Italy. Mark counsels businesses on how to start their businesses, formation issues, investment issues, contractual issues and M&A issues amongst other day-to-day issues that businesses face.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Founder, CTO @ Trala. Trala is a music education company and our first product is an app that teaches violin. My co-founder Sam & I started the company in 2016 and raised $1.3M in 2018. Now, we're scaling the business. Ask me about building a product and hiring through the early-late seed stages.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Tom is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zenblen, a Chicago based startup bringing tech-enabled smoothie bars to the market. Tom and his company recently went through Chicago Booth's New Venture Challenge accelerator, where they received guidance from a panel of distinguished entrepreneurs and investors. Tom previously worked as a strategy consultant, where he leveraged data driven recommendations to help clients grow their businesses. More importantly, Tom started the office tradition of Smoothie Fridays. Tom holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Lexy is the Head of the Information Strategy at Bloq, Inc. a leading enterprise-grade blockchain software and services provider. In June 2017, Lexy was chosen to lead the newly created Chicago Blockchain Center (CBC) a 501c3 public/private initiative dedicated to blockchain advocacy, education and community innovation which she currently serves as executive director.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Nick Hamburger is the Co-founder of Quevos, the world's first egg white chips. Quevos are high protein, high fiber, low carb chips made from egg whites-- a vastly healthier alternative to conventional salty snacks. After pursuing a Philosophy degree at UChicago for two years, Nick is currently on leave from school to run Quevos full time. When not selling egg white chips, Nick enjoys meditating and playing tennis.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Started MP Consulting to help entrepreneurs build world-class hardware in a nimble start-up environment. The Mitul brings years of product development expertise, procurement and supply chain relationships, and manufacturing focus to all of his designs to create a turnkey environment for the clients from concept to store shelves. Primary focus areas are IoT, wearable, smart home, industrial, and bio-medical applications.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Stephanie is our Head of Marketing and Sales at Zenblen. She joins the team having worked in Marketing & Sales at multiple Fortune 500 companies, gaining experience that helps her drive company growth. She also played rugby for over six years, and she is scuba certified and has dived in five different countries. Stephanie received her B.S. in Marketing from Ferris State University with a minor in Spanish.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Professional career reflects over 5 years of executive level management along with an additional 2 years of junior management with additional marketing, business analysis and investing also serving as key decision maker within start-up, entrepreneurial and expansion environments. He is the co-founder of Bit Capital Group, which is a blockchain security company providing end-to-end cryptocurrency mining management services.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Parth is the Co-founder and Head of Product and Technology at Meraki, a VR, AR, MR startup based out of Mumbai, India. He was actively involved as an evangelist in building the XR ecosystem. After the acquisition of Meraki, he moved to Star Sports (a part of The Walt Disney Company) where he led New Technologies and Innovations for their product vertical. After working on some exciting AI products there, he moved to the United States to pursue a Master of Engineering Management at Northwestern University.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Neal Marcus has practiced intellectual property and transactional law for over 15 years. He provides services to a wide spectrum of clients including newly formed start-ups, publicly traded companies and universities. He has extensive experience in the procurement, exploitation and enforcement of all aspects of intellectual property in the U.S. and abroad. In addition, he has represented clients on matters involving intellectual property due diligence and agreement negotiation and preparation. Prior to founding his own practice, he practiced law with the firms of Foley & Lardner in Chicago and Kane Dalsimer et al. in New York as well as serving as in-house counsel for Abbott Laboratories.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Mary Hadley is a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. In 2017, she led MakerGirl’s second summer #MakerGirlGoesMobile road trip to six different states educating over 520 girls throughout 37 sessions. Last fall, she recognized as one of Chicago Inno’s 25 under 25 and was shortlisted for two Women in IT Awards (Diversity Initiative of the Year and Rising Star of the Year) for her work with MakerGirl. This July, she started full-time as MakerGirl's Executive Director.</p>
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<p class="bio-description">Nick founded and serves on the board of WayPaver Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to addressing humanity's greatest challenges by enabling lunar settlement. Prior to his work with WayPaver, Nick worked at the Thiel Foundation where he led the growth and development of their community of young visionaries for the Thiel Fellowship program. In lieu of going to college, Nick started a nonprofit at age 18 that studied the development of entrepreneurial ecosystems in mid-sized cities throughout the United States.</p>
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