This Spring ’23, join UNC alum & Shuford Wellness Advisor-in Residence, Martin Godwin, in the 2nd installment of the Inaugural Shuford Wellness Initiative. Over this 6-part series, students can expect to explore how the power of rigorous honesty, acceptance, and the ability to embrace truth is a path to live an optimal life. The results can be a positive and balanced mental outlook and increased personal resiliency. We will introduce approaches and techniques to address better thinking, acting and service that can enhance our life experience and improve our mental wellness. This new initiative is in direct response to the students’ requests for additional support related to mental health and wellness. Sign up here!

Dates

“Your World” | Thursday, March 23 — 5:00 – 6:00pm

“Your Lowercase ‘f'”  |  To Be Rescheduled

“Your Peace” | Thursday, April 20 — 5:00 – 6:00pm

We are announcing our first Shuford Scholar-in-Residence position, and are pleased to appoint Conrad Ma, UNC ’18 to the post. Under this new collaboration, Ma will support UNC in its efforts to coach, mentor, and fund exceptional young startups coming out of UNC’s Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship. The goal will be to equip our Shuford student startups with innovative technologies, creative solutions, and investor networks. Ma, originally from China, was a computer science major, a Morehead-Cain Scholar and a Shuford Ambassador. He is also the founder of Beta Fellowship, a community dedicated to help pre-founders & founders with knowledge, networks, and funding. Conrad is also an active angel investor and had extensive product management experience from Alibaba, GoDaddy & Microsoft.

Finally, we are announcing that UNC alumnus, Shri Kolanukuduru, will join the team as the Shuford Startup Mentor-in-Residence for the academic year 2022-2023. Shri was enrolled in the Shuford Program and left in 2020 to launch Simplify, a Y Combinator-backed startup that optimizes the job search process for students and new grads. Shri cashed out and now currently works as an investment partner at Pioneer, a venture capital fund backed by Stripe and Andreessen Horowitz, where he invests in founders at their earliest stages. Shri will use his knowledge and networks to mentor, educate, and invest in our Shuford students and their startups.