Jenn Yee

Jenn is passionate about building teams, programs and products that help to close a widening education and opportunity gap, and that help organizations to grow and scale sustainably. In her current role at food e-commerce startup Green Chef, she is responsible for designing and developing initiatives in support of people and human resources strategies.

Prior to Green Chef, Jenn served as the Assistant Director for Internships and Experiential Learning at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, building intra-school partnerships, experiential learning programs and leading a design-thinking initiative focused on career readiness programs for undergraduate students.

Jenn has personally advised hundreds of undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals making career transitions into the startup and traditional sectors. Prior to her role at the university, she was the Founding Director of the Startup Institute Chicago, an immersive education company that helps individuals to develop the skills, mindset, and network to get jobs and thrive in high-growth tech companies.

Jenn has been a featured speaker on topics such as the startup ecosystem, the high-tech job economy, millennials and the job markets, and as a featured speaker or panelist at Chicago Ideas Week, Glappitnova, e@NU at Northwestern University and the Fall summit of the Collegiate Career Services Association (CCSA) of Colorado & Wyoming.

She has a BA from Williams College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.