Katherine Burke is a Policy Advisor in the National Economic Council at the White House. She was formerly the Director of Jobs and Workforce at the Hope Street Group and was also a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Katherine graduated from the University of Virginia with a major in Finance and Management and was the recipient of O’Dell Graduation Award, awarded to top management student based on academic, managerial, and leadership aptitude.

Mike is the Director of Student Experience & Community Engagement at Minerva, helping to build an accredited four-year undergraduate liberal arts degree from the ground up. His role at Minerva is to curate and design the student experience, focusing on integrating what students learn in the classroom with living projects and challenges.

Before Minerva, Mike spent 5 years at Georgetown University, where he helped to launch the Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University. While at Georgetown, he has also held roles as the Program Manager for Innovation to the CIO, Special Assistant to the COO and the Project Manager to the CFO.

Prior to Georgetown, Mike worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital. Michael graduated magna cum laude from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University majoring in Accounting and Finance and minoring in English. He loves ginger scallion noodles and lamb dumplings.