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Randi Shade is an Austin-based entrepreneur and community leader. She has been a board member and has served in executive roles throughout her career, working in the private, nonprofit, and government sectors. Randi was elected citywide to serve on the Austin City Council, was the founder and CEO of a venture capital-backed internet company, served as the executive director of the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation, and was the founding executive director of what is now OneStar Foundation, where she launched AmeriCorps in Texas, working for Texas Governors Ann Richards and George W. Bush. Randi earned a BA degree in 1988 in the Plan II Honors Program at UT Austin, where she served as student body president; she also earned her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. Randi received a German Marshall Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2004, and in 2005 became a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. Randi has been a consultant to Dell Technologies in recent years, an active community volunteer, the co-chair of a newly launched in-district charter school and community center called Greenleaf NCC (Greenleaf Neurodiversity Community Center) for people with autism transitioning to adulthood, and she teaches Investing in Philanthropy to MBA students at UT's McCombs School of Business. Randi also stays busy raising a son (age 18) and a daughter (16) with her wife, Kayla Shell, an attorney at Dell.
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