Equalize is a virtual mentor program and pitch competition designed to take national action around the disparity of women academic inventors forming university startups.
Fifteen women academic entrepreneurs were selected for the Equalize 2022 cohort. Mentorship and educational sessions begin in January, and the program will culminate with a virtual pitch competition on June 30, 2022.
MedTech
Jennifer Blain Christen
Arizona State University
Maria Croyle
University of Texas at Austin
Rachel Dreyer
Yale University
Nancy Guo
West Virginia University
Ariella Shikanov
University of Michigan
Katelyn Swindle-Reilly
The Ohio State University
Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Northwestern University
Therapeutics
Julie Magarian Blander
Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg
Washington University in St. Louis
Ornit Chiba-Falek
Duke University
Julie Goodwin
Yale University
Sui Huang
Northwestern University
Monica Jablonski
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Barbara Osborne
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Karin Westlund High
University of New Mexico Health Science Center