“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year.” — W.E.B. Du Bois
With that quote, Dr. George T. French, Jr., president of Clark Atlanta University, a Historically Black University based in Atlanta, delivered the endnote at Empower 2021, a Princeton University conference celebrating Black academic entrepreneurship. His charge to attendees to go out and create impact concluded two days of actionable advice on how to propel university research into new ventures beyond academia, and of frank conversation about the challenges to success faced by Black academic entrepreneurs.
This year’s Empower 2021 is the first in a series of events that will focus on the hurdles faced by academic entrepreneurs from historically underrepresented groups.
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