Hold Yourself Accountable

A change agent, mentor, and educator, Carrie has led teacher-training workshops that have impacted nearly half a million young people. She is the founder of the nonprofit Economic Ventures, Inc., and the creator of EntrePrep℠ Summer Institute, an experiential entrepreneurship program for youth that offers intensive one-week summer sessions on economic and financial literacy. The program features Business-for-a-Day™, where community mentors provide students with their real-world understanding of what it takes to run a business. She also developed an experiential entrepreneurship program, now in its fifth year, for Norwegian college students who spend a semester studying in New York City. She is a Capstone Advisor to Bard MBA students in the area of sustainability, and an instructor for Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses.