Devin Cook accelerates innovation ecosystems, the work of the future, and entrepreneurship for economic development. Currently, she is engaged at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (IDE) and the MIT Work of the Future Initiative, driving research initiatives. Previously, she co-founded and led the Inclusive Innovation Challenge, a $1.5 million future of work prize for startups, presented by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and now part of MIT Solve. A Fulbright Scholar, she researched entrepreneurship and economic development among textile artisans in India. She has conducted research with MIT innovation and entrepreneurship faculty, worked at multiple start-ups, mentored over 100 start-up founders, and teaches entrepreneurship at accelerators nationwide. Devin is an Advisory Board member of Humans for AI, a Jurist for the INDEX: Award (world’s largest design prize), and a board member of the Maine Women’s Fund. She earned a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she was awarded the Ronald I. Heller Award for her contribution to entrepreneurship education on campus.