City of Rochester
News Release
(Friday, Feb. 14, 2020) — Dr. dt ogilvie, the Mayor’s
Senior Advisor on Economic Development & Urban Entrepreneurship, will
receive the YES Entrepreneurship Service award for her “role in promoting and
championing youth entrepreneurship and community development.”
“We are extremely fortunate to have Dr. ogilvie on loan
to us from the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of
Business,” said Mayor Lovely Warren. “She is currently serving on the Board of
Directors of the Rochester Economic Development Corporation (REDCO), helping to
lead its transition and also representing the City on the ROC 2025 economic
development alliance as a leadership group and marketing committee member.”
The award was given to Dr. ogilvie by Young Entrepreneurz
Solutions out of Newark, NJ, which teaches youth across the nation and in the
Caribbean entrepreneurship and economic development skills via their YES
Entrepreneurship Program. Students in the program participate in the annual YES
National Business Plan Challenge, at which Dr. ogilvie will serve as a judge
this September.
Dr. ogilvie has extensively taught and trained youth and
young adults in entrepreneurship and business, especially underserved and
minority students, during her wide-ranging career in academia. She is a
Distinguished Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship and former Dean and Professor
of Business Strategy at Saunders College of Business at the Rochester Institute
of Technology. She is the founder of the Center for Urban Entrepreneurship
(CUE). She has taught in China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Fiji, Papua New Guinea
and France and is a former business professor at Rutgers Business School,
serving as the founding director of their Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and
Economic Development, and Scholarship Training and Enrichment Program. Her
academic research has won numerous awards. Dr. ogilvie was appointed by Gov.
Cuomo to sit on the Finger Lakes Regional Council Entrepreneurship &
Innovation Work Group.
“dt has helped
young people start and grow businesses by providing key mentorship, guidance
and networking opportunities to help them to succeed,” said Ernest Ruffin,
Executive Director, Young Entrepreneurz Solutions.
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Jessica Alaimo at 428-7135.