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Melissa Kaufman

Melissa is the Executive Director of The Garage, the hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation at Northwestern. Melissa is an exGoogler, Startup veteran, and entrepreneur with a decade of experience at consumer technologies companies in Silicon Valley. She has worked in-house at Google, YouTube, Polyvore (acquired by Yahoo) and Luvocracy (acquired by WalMart Labs). Most recently, she built her own influencer marketing agency called Storylark. Melissa holds a B.A. in computer science from Dartmouth College.