Nana Younge

Lecturer

Nana Younge (AR 789 – Creative Startups) is the Program Director at Boston University’s Student Innovation Center, Innovate@BU, where she designs and leads programs that support venture creation, innovation education, and student leadership development. She works with students across disciplines to help them transform ideas into actionable projects, strengthen their problem-solving skills, and connect their academic experiences to meaningful real-world impact. Her work centers on expanding access to innovation education and empowering students to see themselves as creators, builders, and changemakers within and beyond the university.

In addition to her program leadership at BU, Nana is a scholar whose research explores how race, gender, age, and socioeconomic status intersect within entrepreneurial ecosystems. Her work examines community-centered strategies for supporting historically marginalized founders and advancing more inclusive models of innovation and venture development.

She is also the founder and Executive Director of Get Girls Going (GGG), a Boston-based nonprofit organization that empowers Black teen girls to become social entrepreneurs and changemakers in their communities.

Nana holds a Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Master of Education from Merrimack College. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Transformative Education at Clark University.