The Skandalaris Center’s St. Louis Entrepreneurial Fellowship has selected the 2022 cohort of undergraduate students. These 14 students will explore innovation and entrepreneurship – at WashU and in St. Louis – over the course of the next three semesters.

St. Louis Entrepreneurial Fellows will begin their journey in a spring semester for-credit course that will introduce them to the terminology of innovation and entrepreneurship and will help them develop skills required to rigorously assess the risk/reward profile of new venture ideas. The fellowship summer features a 10-week paid summer internship at a St. Louis area startup. The program concludes with a fall semester capstone project that brings together what the students have learned throughout the year in a definite project that will impact the WashU or St. Louis entrepreneurial community.

“I am so impressed with the variety of students who applied,” said Jessica Weldon, Skandalaris Center Assistant Director of Programs. “After disruptions due to the pandemic over the last two years, we are excited about holding the fellowship entirely in person and about the options these students will have for their summer internships with St. Louis startups.”

The Skandalaris Center is thrilled to welcome the following undergraduate students into the St. Louis Entrepreneurial Fellowship:

Aisha Adedayo (Beyond Boundaries, BU ’25) Major: Organization & Strategic Management and Global Health Double Major; Business of Social Impact Minor

Angel Huang (BU ’25) Major: Entrepreneurship and Finance, Minor in Computer Science

Chloe Finn (LA ’24) Major: Economics; Psychological & Brain Sciences

Chris Lopez (LA ’25) Major: Computer Science and Entrepreneurship

Eliana Jenkins (LA ’24) Major: Global Studies – Concentration in Global Cultural Studies

Fred Hua (EN, BU ’25) Major: Computer Science/Organization and Strategic Management (OSM)

Gabriela Pedreros (BU ’25) Major: Marketing

Griffin Lovato (LA, Beyond Boundaries ’25) Major: Political Science / Statistics

Jonah Zacks (Beyond Boundaries ’25) Major: Undecided

Riya Daftary (EN, BU ’24) Major: BuCs Dual Degree Program for Business and Computer Science with a focus on Strategy, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship

Ryan Wu (Beyond Boundaries ’25) Major: Computer Science, Psychology

Shawn Zhu (Beyond Boundaries ’25) Major: Urban Studies/Environmental Studies

Sangwook Suh (LA ’23) Major: Mathematics (Applied Track) and Computer Science

Ulrica Wu (BU, Beyond Boundaries ’24) Major: Undecided art + business