Dana Rygwelski is Director of Communications for MassChallegne Texas. In this role she leads all communications and community efforts related to the Texas brand, startups, experts, and partners. Dana\u2019s experience extends more than a decade of building strategic programs and communities for entrepreneurs across the world. Dana\u2019s career started at the University of Southern California where she was part of the team that founded the TEDx conference series. At Hulu, she was their first internal communications lead and designed programs to increase familiarity and transparency company-wide. In 2012, Dana moved into the Director of Programs role at DreamIt Ventures where she designed an \u201caccelerator in a box\u201d solution to scale the organization\u2019s core product \u2013 a startup accelerator – to five locations ensuring each entrepreneur, no matter where they were in the world, had the same DreamIt experience. She has worked with countless startups and has a unique perspective of how they can leverage ecosystems, resources, and programs to succeed. Dana\u2019s career is driven by a passion to be a trendsetter. She has the desire to help companies [and people!] identify new, creative opportunities through community and technology to solve big problems. When she\u2019s not working; Dana is often found hiking with her dogs, Squat and Dale, or in the gym. In fact, she is one of only 7 women in history to squat more than 700lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4528,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Dana","last_name":"Rygwelski","title":"Director of Communications + Ecosystem","organization":"MassChallenge Texas","website":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/startupsweetdee?lang=en","twitter":"startupsweetdee","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"yoast_head":"\n