Vicky Wu Davis

Founder and Mother Hen

2008 - Current

cultivating entrepreneurial leaders, for a better world With an entrepreneurial ecosystem from middle schoolers and beyond, yCITIES focuses on creating a strong and diverse pipeline of tomorrow’s founders and investors, while also creating spaces for today’s entrepreneurs who natively understand the problem they’re addressing. Through curriculum, scaffolded mentoring support, tools, and interactive social network, we are pushing the boundaries of where innovation can flourish, the perception of what ingenuity looks like, and who has a seat at the entrepreneurial table. By providing equitable access to entrepreneurial education, toolboxes, and social capital to passion-driven folks with varying backgrounds and interests, yCITIES fuels an inclusive pool of today’s and tomorrow’s talent. To the extent that we are equipping a diverse pool of changemakers -- and those who will fund those changemakers -- with these critical skills, we are solving more of the world’s problems. This we believe is key to changing the world.

Member

2013

Beacon Angels is a Boston-based angel group that makes investments in the $100,000 to $300,000 range in small fast-growing companies.

Member

2020

VMS Mentor

2004

VMS supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching prospective entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer mentors.

Advisor, Howe Innovation Center

2023

The Howe Innovation Center is designed to unlock the power of the entrepreneurial and disability communities to create purpose-built solutions for a more accessible world.

Advisor

2020

Startup focused on capturing the attention of Black and Latinx voters by providing education on who’s running for office, and what those elected roles mean. @timetokyp

Advisory Board Member

2015

Promoting and supporting entrepreneurial thinking for nurturing agents of change and impact.

Advisory Board Member

2013

A global network of businesses, municipal governments and universities committed to strengthening international cities with vibrant business ecosystems that develop the local economy and exchange solutions to improving the region’s workforce, infrastructure, standard of living and other factors influencing a city’s ability to compete globally.

Parent Representative

2013 - 2018

The Bancroft School Improvement Council was established in 1994 and is comprised of teachers, parents, and community representatives who assist our school in identifying goals and areas in need of improvement. The primary responsibility of the School Improvement Council is to create an annual School Improvement Plan, which is based on a needs assessment.

Advisor

2015 - 2016

An out-of-the-box open-access studio, makerspace and learning center