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Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University

Moderator

Anne-Marie Maman ’84
Executive Director, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council       

Panelists

Wendy Kopp ’89
CEO and Co-Founder, Teach For All

Sheila Marmon Heuer ’94
Founder & CEO, Mirror Digital

Noah Levine ’09
Co-Founder, Teranga; Co-Founder, Elevate

Lou Chen ’19
Founder and Program Manager, Trenton Arts at Princeton

Moderator

Anne-Marie Maman ’84
Executive Director, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council       

In her role as the inaugural executive director of the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, Anne-Marie Maman is responsible for driving changes to Princeton’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, developing programs designed to meet the needs of faculty, student, and alumni entrepreneurs. Maman and her team initiated a variety of programs focused on educating Princeton-affiliated entrepreneurs of all levels and in all markets. Mamane started her career focusing on early customer discovery and product/market fit for cutting-edge technologies within large health care companies. She then founded three medical technology companies based in the Philadelphia area, one of which was sold to an international medical technology company. She has been with the Princeton Entrepreneurship Council for eight years.

Panelists

Wendy Kopp ’89
CEO and Co-Founder, Teach For All

In 2007, Wendy Kopp launched Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations in 61 countries working to develop collective leadership to ensure all children have the opportunity to fulfill their potential. Previously, Kopp founded and led, for 24 years, Teach For America — which has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity for children in the United States. Kopp led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to the initiative of social entrepreneurs around the world who were determined to adapt this approach in their own countries. Kopp holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton as well as honorary doctorate degrees from 15 universities. She has been recognized with numerous awards, including the Wise Prize for Education, the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship and the Schwab Foundation’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award.

Sheila Marmon Heuer ’94
Founder & CEO, Mirror Digital

Sheila Marmon Heuer’s digital media company, Mirror Digital, connects leading global brands to the fastest-growing U.S. market — multicultural and LGBTQIA+ audiences. Over the last decade, as founder and CEO, she has led her team to execute more than 1,000 digital media programs for Amazon, AT&T, Clinique, Comcast, Disney, General Motors, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble and Walmart, among others. Heuer has been featured in publications, including Fast Company and the Financial Times, and has received numerous industry and civic awards, such as Mirror Digital being recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by Ad Age and “One of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America” by Inc. Magazine. A graduate of Harvard Business School, she serves as board chair for A Better Chance and on the board of the American Advertising Federation, where she chairs its digital media committee. 

Noah Levine ’09
Co-Founder, Teranga; Co-Founder, Elevate

Noah Levine is a social entrepreneur who builds purpose-driven businesses designed for global impact. He is the co-founder of Teranga, an African food company, creating a platform for indigenous African crops grown by smallholder farmers. Based in New York City, Teranga offers fast-casual restaurants and a forthcoming line of commercial products. Levine is also the co-founder of Elevate, a mission-driven basketball agency that works between West Africa and the United States. Previously, Levine served as the executive director of the SEED Project, a Senegal-based education and sports nonprofit that provides more than 10,000 students a year with basketball and academic programming. Levine is a native New Yorker and currently lives in New York City and Senegal. He was an art history major at Princeton and a member of the men’s basketball team.

Lou Chen ’19
Founder and Program Manager, Trenton Arts at Princeton

Originally from San Bernardino, California, Lou Chen is the founder of Trenton Arts at Princeton (TAP), a program that connects young artists from the Trenton public schools with Princeton University. He graduated from Princeton, where he received his bachelor’s degree in music (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and certificates in orchestral conducting and American studies. Having founded the Trenton Youth Orchestra as a sophomore, Chen was hired by the University after his graduation to develop a larger arts outreach initiative, now known as TAP. He is a passionate advocate for accessible arts education and place-based community engagement. In 2023, he received the Tiger Entrepreneur Award. This year marks TAP’s fifth anniversary.