Hayley Johnston

Johnston has been immersed in the St. Louis Innovation Ecosystem since 2017 working for several Entrepreneur Support Organizations, Corporations, and Universities. Currently, she is the Program Manager at the Chaifetz Center for Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University. She volunteers in the entrepreneurship community by serving on the St. Louis Startup Week Committee, as a Core Leadership Team Member of TechSTL, as an Arch Grant's Judge, and as a mentor to local early stage startups. Additionally, she helped establish a nonprofit dog park in her neighborhood and now serves on their board. She holds a Master of Social Work in Social and Economic Development and Policy from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Social Work and Minor in Sociology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.