Chris Miller started his professional life as a community organizer in Illinois before going on to a career in entrepreneurship and academia. He launched his first startup, Yurbuds, a St. Louis-based commercial venture that was named 9th Most Promising Company in America by Forbes in 2009. He then went on to launch the internationally renowned social entrepreneurship incubator and accelerator, The Mission Center L3C, before becoming the faculty chair of the social entrepreneurship program at the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to running The Mission Center L3C and its associated enterprises in the community, he now serves as the co-founder of the WashU Startup Training Lab and senior lecturer of Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.
