New Haven Independent - 2 Years On, Yale-City Center Gets A Boss

A local champion of entrepreneurial equity has been chosen to to lead the New Haven-focused “Center for Inclusive Growth” that Yale promised to build in 2021 — and now will start trying to define two years later.

Dawn Leaks Ragsdale, who previously served for two years as the executive director of the local business incubator Collab, is the center’s new executive director. She is also the founder of Lioness Magazine, a publication that spotlights women entrepreneurs.

University administrators and local politicians convened a press conference to announced this news on Tuesday afternoon at 65 Audubon St., the office that the forthcoming $5 million center is slated to occupy. Read More. https://www.newhavenindependent.org/2024/03/05/leaks_ragsdale_to_helm_inclusive_growth_at_yale/