About

Jeff Sorensen is a founder, funder, and community builder. He has been leading the University of Oregon's Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship since fall 2022. The center aspires to provide an ideal place for highly committed people to build their next big project.

Over the past 12 years, along with great teams and colleagues, Sorensen has raised $25 million for college entrepreneurship programs, incubated more than 5,000 student founders, advised and funded hundreds of them, and built infrastructure to support student entrepreneurs for decades to come.

Sorensen believes that anyone can build amazing things, and he wants to help where he can. His mission is to create supportive communities for the ones who ask, "Why not me?" and take action on their ideas. Please don't hesitate to reach out.

• BA, University of Michigan, 2012
• Graduate Coursework, Ross School of Business, 2013–2014

• Founding Director for Social Innovation, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan, 2015–2022
• Cofounder, optiMize, 2012–present
• Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017–2018

• Member, University of Michigan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Roundtable, 2017–2022
• Member, Ann Arbor Learning Community School Board, 2016–2019
• Member, United Way of Washtenaw County Campaign Cabinet, 2015

• Forbes 30 Under 30, 2017
• Crain's 20 in Their 20s, 2017
• University of Michigan Student of the Year, 2014

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