What makes something revolutionary? How do ideas that challenge the status quo become mainstream?

We are thrilled to welcome Donna Harris to our community as we focus on the idea of REVOLUTIONS. As a founder, CEO, investor and board member, she has a deep well of knowledge and experience to help us unpack what it means to shake up the norm and disrupt an industry.

Donna Harris is Founder of Builders + Backers, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of 1776 Ventures, and was previously Managing Director of the Startup America Partnership. As a board member of both the Global Entrepreneurship Network and the National Center for Entrepreneurship, an Advisor to the Economic Innovation Group, a Distinguished Fellow of the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at The Busch School, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Georgetown University, Donna works to inspire entrepreneurs to create companies of impact and to become leaders in their communities. She avidly believes in the power of entrepreneurial thinking to drive culture change and collective flourishing and she frequently gives keynote talks to inspire it at conferences and on college campuses around the world.