Princeton University's Empower conference strives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion by celebrating and empowering academic entrepreneurs who are committed to these efforts, including those from historically underrepresented groups.
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Empower 2023
The second conference in this series, Empower 2023, will highlight and celebrate women entrepreneurs throughout academia. Empower 2023 will also feature a pitch competition.
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Princeton University's Empower conference strives to promote diversity, equity and inclusion by celebrating and empowering academic entrepreneurs who are committed to these efforts, including those from historically underrepresented groups.
Empower 2021
The first conference in the series, Empower 2021, highlighted and celebrated Black entrepreneurs from throughout academia.
“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.” -- W.E.B. Du Bois
With that quote, Dr. George T. French, Jr., president of Clark Atlanta University, a Historically Black University based in Atlanta, delivered the endnote…
Six startups have been selected to compete for a grand prize of $100,000 in cash plus in-kind services at the Empower 2021 conference, organized by Princeton University and sponsored by Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, Mintz, National Urban League and EisnerAmper.