National Office Blog

The Summer Institute is really coming together!  Here's an updated list of people that have agreed to speak and businesses that have partnered with us to help make this event happen.

Keynote Speaker: Christopher Gergen, founding partner of New Mountain Ventures, LLC, instructor of Duke's Enterprising Leadership Initiative (Hart Leadership Program), and co-author of "Life Entrepreneurs: Mavericks in the Art of Leading and Living."

Social Entrepreneurship Theory and Concepts: Dr. Jim Johnson, the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of entrepreneurship and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.

Community Partner Perspective: Dr. Christopher Kigongo, a Ugandan physician working as a clinical trial manager at Duke University. He was also the founder of the Millennium School, one of this year's summer projects.

Management and Growth: Ryan Allis, founder and CEO of iContact, and author of the book , Zero to One Million, describing how to go from a blank slate to 1 million dollars in sales. Ryan is also a dedicated board member of Nourish International.

Succeeding Against the Odds: Sindhura Citineni, founder of Nourish International, recipient of UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Outstanding Young Alumni of the Year Award and a dental student at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Dentistry.