Watson Institute’s Wells Fargo Small Business Fellowship is receiving major media attention, landing on the front page of The Baltimore Times following the program’s official launch.
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CHICAGO, May 10, 2024 – Watson Institute and BMO today are thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural BMO Fellowship for innovative, sustainability-focused entrepreneurs and community leaders from underserved communities throughout Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. This year, 18 fellows have been selected to participate in the program, which is designed to support the progress of highly promising, diverse sustainability leaders achieve their goals centered around solving today’s environmental challenges.
At the end of the fourth week of classes at The Watson Institute I have to pause and reflect how time is a weird substance. Four weeks have flown by but the experience has felt like a four-month journey. I’m sure some of you might be curious about exactly what I’m up to after crowdfunding my way to get here, but I think I wouldn’t do justice to try and explain it all. And if you’re thinking of starting your own social enterprise I really think the only solution would be for you to apply to come and experience it yourself. It might be a bit premature for me to make claims that it’ll change your life, so in spite of what I literally just said two sentences ago, I’ll still try explain the three things that have made the experience great so far to try to inspire you to put in an application.
Wainright Acquoi, a Watson Scholar at Lynn University, wrote an op-ed regarding Liberia’s “missing billions” case. The piece was published on The Bush Chicken.
A few days ago, I woke up to an email from the director of Social Impact at my school: “Wainright: Stop by the Lab when you get a chance. I have an article for you on Liberia from today’s New York Times.”
Former Vice President of Watson Institute and founder of Pathos Labs, Romain Sepehr Vakilitabar, spoke about how technology can help people become more empathetic.
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Watson Institute alumni, Carson Kahn, was recognized as one of the “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018” by Goldman Sachs for his artificial intelligence company, Volley.com.
Kahn is the CTO and cofounder of Volley (volley.com), a Silicon Valley AI company backed by strategic investor JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Zuckerberg Ventures, and high-profile current and former executives from Goldman Sachs (GS), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), and Udemy. Kahn is also an invited member of the Forbes Technology Council and IEEE Society for Computational Intelligence.
Veganarke, the company Rangan founded after starting and running a nonprofit animal rights organization for two years when he was just 16. “We were a bunch of teenagers in different Indian cities doing campaigns for veganism on the streets,” he explains. “A common argument I came across was that the vegan alternatives were expensive. I looked around and there were very few exclusively vegan businesses that were accessible to me on a student budget. Veganarke was born out of a desire to make vegan products affordable and accessible to everyone.”
