Melissa Paulsen

Program Director, Entrepreneurship and Education Programs, Pulte Institute for Global Development; Term Assistant Teaching Professor

Melissa Paulsen

3150C Jenkins Nanovic Halls
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

(574) 631-7568
mpaulse1@nd.edu

Melissa Paulsen

Program Director, Entrepreneurship and Education Programs, Pulte Institute for Global Development; Term Assistant Teaching Professor

Expertise

Business & development; social entrepreneurship

At the Keough School

Melissa Paulsen leads the Entrepreneurship and Education Division at the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development, working with faculty to develop interdisciplinary approaches to development programs. In addition, she coordinates student fellowships, student research opportunities, and collaborative institutes for international students, entrepreneurs, and business leaders. Paulsen also is a term assistant teaching professor in the Keough School.

Courses

Biography

Paulsen is a former assistant director of the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurship in Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business. She served as director of the Center’s social entrepreneurship program and was concurrent assistant professional faculty in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has taught courses including Social Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Social Enterprise Consulting, Microventure Consulting, and Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries.

Paulsen also leads workshops on social and traditional entrepreneurship, and has managed experiential and service-learning programs in South Africa, Haiti, Kenya, Uganda and Guatemala. She holds a master of nonprofit administration degree from Notre Dame and a BA in English and philosophy from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts.