Rodriguez to Lead CTICE Engaged Entrepreneurship Program
The Center for Technology, Innovation and Community Engagement is pleased to announce that it has hired Rebecca Rodriguez to be Senior Associate Director for Entrepreneurship, effective September 2.
"We're excited that Rebecca has joined the CTICE team," says SEAS Associate Dean Jack McGourty, CTICE's executive director. "She has the perfect experience for this new position, and is full of great ideas on how to move CTICE's Engaged Entrepreneurship Program forward."
Previously, Ms. Rodriguez was associate director for experiential education and student enterprises at the University’s Center for Career Education. In this capacity, she supervised Columbia Student Enterprises (CSE), which employs more than 600 Columbia University students annually in student-run businesses: the Columbia Bartending Agency and School of Mixology, the Columbia Tutoring and Translating Agency, and Inside New York. She also served as an advisor to the Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs.
As senior associate director for entrepreneurship, Ms. Rodriguez will be responsible for developing co-curricular entrepreneurship programs for students, including a student venture program; supervising an new entrepreneur-in-residence program, which will which will give students and faculty access to advice and ideas from someone who has successfully created a business; and implementing a mentoring program, which will connect students who need advice and expertise with alumni.
Ms. Rodriguez will work closely with the alumni Entrepreneurship Advisory Board and the Faculty Advisory Committee, both of which contribute to the CTICE entrepreneurship program.