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Rangoli Bhattacharjee is a Senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Health Policy and Management and Business. Rangoli started her academic career with strong interest in healthcare specifically infectious diseases like AIDS and their impact on communities. However, after taking a Lean Startup course, during her first-year at Carolina, in which she had the chance to launch a venture she realized the power of entrepreneurial thinking in solving big problems. Soon thereafter she had the chance to study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa where her work for the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation took her into the most impoverished townships in the Western Cape. Once again, she was amazed by how these South Africans in dire poverty were responding to the needs of their own communities using entrepreneurship [http://www.capetownmagazine.com/cafes/department-of-coffee-in-khayelitsha/93_22_18910 (Department of Coffee in Khayelitsha is an awesome example)]. Upon her return to campus, she decided to join [http://innovate.unc.edu/about/meet-our-team/ Innovate Carolina] in their quest to cultivate a robust entrepreneurship community at UNC as one of their 2 program interns developing their student engagement strategy.

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