IU Founders and Funders Network Fireside Chat with Julie Heath

Event Description

Julie Heath serves as Executive Director of IU Innovates, a new initiative that advances entrepreneurship at Indiana University. She co-chairs the Ecosystem Building Leadership Network, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Initiatives, catalyzed by a series of initiatives funded by the Kauffman Foundation. Between 2021 and 2023, Heath developed the state of Indiana's first entrepreneurship ecosystem strategy. Prior to her work at the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, she led a community-based entrepreneur support organization with a mission to remove barriers for aspiring founders and early-stage entrepreneurs. Her career has ranged from the launch of a tech startup to intrapreneurship at the Smithsonian Institution. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, spent fifteen years on the East Coast, and now splits her time between Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana.

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