UVA Student Tina Yao Builds Girls Who Innovate, Raising $120,000
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Updated · UVA Today · Oct 6
UVA Student Tina Yao Builds Girls Who Innovate, Raising $120,000
1 articles · Updated · UVA Today · Oct 6
Summary
More than $120,000 in funding has gone to Girls Who Innovate, the nonprofit Tina Yao launched after a canceled summer internship left the UVA student with unexpected time to build.
The organization focuses on entrepreneurship education, with Yao and collaborators from several universities running networking events and a summer boot camp for high school girls and college students.
In just over a year, Yao has also studied at Harvard Business School and Wharton while growing her social media audience to more than 15,000 followers.
The effort marks a rapid expansion from a personal setback into a cross-campus nonprofit aimed at widening access to entrepreneurship networks for young women.