Abigail Ingram
BIO
Abigail Ingram is executive director of the Polsky Exchange at the University of Chicago, leading engagement with the South Side community through programs and initiatives that support local business owners and entrepreneurs. She is passionate about the role of entrepreneurship as a pathway to opportunity and the importance of measuring impact.
Prior to joining the Polsky Center, Ingram launched the Women in Entrepreneurship Institute (WEI) at DePaul University’s Driehaus College of Business, and served as its inaugural director for three years. While at WEI, the nation’s first comprehensive institute for women founders, she designed and proved a model that measurably increases economic empowerment for entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur herself, Ingram also taught courses at the Driehaus College of Business in Entrepreneurship Law, Entrepreneurship Strategy and Women Entrepreneurs, as well as in DePaul's Business Law Clinic.
Ingram launched her first venture, a music studio in Denver, Colorado, in 2009, and spent four years exploring sustainable business models for creative entrepreneurs. She is a practicing attorney who founded and runs a boutique law firm that provides legal counsel to entrepreneurs.