Family Dinner

A weekly event for Residents to gather, share their successes, celebrate their failures, and hear from a startup superstar.

Every week during the academic year, The Garage holds Family Dinner for our Resident students. With an exclusive invite, Residents get the chance to connect with each other, hear directly from accomplished founders and storytellers in an intimate environment, and dive into a catered dinner from local Evanston hot spots!

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Learn more about what goes on inside Family Dinner with our most recent written recaps:

Students at The Garage featured in Chicago Inno's 'Under 25' List 2024

Carly Kramer

December 6, 2024

Family Dinner Recap: Charlotte Trecartin

Beatriz Aguiar Fonseca '27

November 26, 2024

Family Dinner Recap: Matt Sacks

Beatriz Aguiar Fonseca '27

November 20, 2024

Family Dinner Guest Speakers

Josh Earnest

White House Press Secretary for the Obama Administration, EVP at United Airlines

Elise Wetzel
Weinberg ’87 + Kellogg ’92

Co-founder of Blaze Pizza

Charles Adler

Co-founder of Kickstarter

Katrina Lake

Founder and CEO of Stitch Fix

Jake Nickell

Founder of Threadless

Steve Larosiliere

Founder of Stoked

Cayla Weisberg

Partner at InvestHER

Andy Friedman

Co-founder of SkinnyPop

Alex Niemczewski

Co-founder of BallotReady

Mike Golden

Co-founder of @properties

Matt Matros

Founder of Protein Bar and Limitless Coffee and Tea

Rahim Diallo

Co-founder of Ginjan Bros & Jawudi

Linxin Wen

Co-founder of Chowbus

Kate Solomon
Kellogg ’02

Founder of Babo Botanicals

Neal Sales-Griffin
SESP ’09

Co-founder of Codenow / Managing Director of Techstars Chicago & San Francisco

Raaja Nemani
WCAS ’04

Co-founder of Bucketfeet

Josh Earnest

White House Press Secretary for the Obama Administration, EVP at United Airlines

Elise Wetzel
Weinberg ’87 + Kellogg ’92

Co-founder of Blaze Pizza

Charles Adler

Co-founder of Kickstarter

Katrina Lake

Founder and CEO of Stitch Fix