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    At Lewis & Clark, studying entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation is not just about starting a business. It is about using the entrepreneurial mindset to analyze, adapt, innovate, and advocate. Sometimes this results in a business. Hopefully, it always leads to you learning how to advocate for yourself and others on your path to a productive, thriving, and impactful life.

    Our new minor in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation gives you the opportunity to integrate your critical thinking, analytical abilities, and communication skills to create and test impact-based solutions for the for-profit and nonprofit world. Through the study of entrepreneurship and substantial hands-on experience, you will develop a greater understanding of yourself and others in order to collaborate more effectively, maximize efforts to achieve common goals, and create positive change. You will gain a powerful toolkit and network enabling you to translate your liberal arts education into action as you prepare for future work, ventures, and adventures.

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  • No one can give you a better sense of what it’s like to study entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation at Lewis & Clark than our current students and recent alumni.

  • <div class="flexbox"><div class="student_profile_image item"><a href="/live/profiles/10667-tuse-mahenya"><img src="/live/image/gid/186/width/310/height/310/crop/1/src_region/0,0,3200,2136/78752_CAS-0419-SPP-Mahenya-009.rev.1559686203.jpg" alt=""/></a></div><div class="student_profile_content item"><h4><a href="/live/profiles/10667-tuse-mahenya">Tuse Mahenya</a></h4><div class="student_profile_details"><div class="student_profile_class">BA ’21</div><div class="student_profile_extracurriculars"><strong>Extracurriculars:</strong> Theatre, Student Philanthropy Council, Editorial Meridian Journal, Auditor (ASLC), Student Advisory Board (Career Center), Overnight Host, International Fair, Senior Experience, Literary Review</div><div class="student_profile_hometown"><strong>Hometown:</strong> Dar es Salaam, Tanzania</div><div class="student_profile_overseas"><strong>Overseas program:</strong> South Korea (spring 2020)</div><div class="student_profile_quote"><em><p> No matter what happens, things will always work out for you in the end. It may take time, and I cannot guarantee that it will work out the way you expected, but if there’s anything college has taught me thus far, it’s that you will be just fine.</p></em></div></div></div></div>
  • <div class="flexbox"><div class="student_profile_image item"><a href="/live/profiles/9529-thor-retzlaff"><img src="/live/image/gid/7/width/310/height/310/crop/1/src_region/0,0,800,534/72916_fud_8012.rev.1529103577.jpg" alt=""/></a></div><div class="student_profile_content item"><h4><a href="/live/profiles/9529-thor-retzlaff">Thor Retzlaff</a></h4><div class="student_profile_details"><div class="student_profile_class">BA ’18</div><div class="student_profile_extracurriculars"><strong>Extracurriculars:</strong> Football</div><div class="student_profile_hometown"><strong>Hometown:</strong> Truckee, California</div><div class="student_profile_quote"><em><p> I like to think of all my peers as a collective community. There is a community that will support any of your interests here.</p></em></div></div></div></div>
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