Renee Kelly is director of economic development initiatives for the University of Maine. Her duties include serving as a liaison to the state’s economic development community and identifying opportunities for the University to partner with state, regional and local organizations to improve Maine’s economy. She also co-directs the Foster Center for Student Innovation, which helps students become innovators and entrepreneurs, and leads the development of the Center’s groundbreaking Innovation Engineering® programs for students and businesses. In addition, she teaches advanced courses in the innovation engineering program and regularly consults with businesses to help them innovate new products, services, processes and business models. She also serves on the boards of several economic development and service organizations, including serving the state as a trustee for the Maine Rural Development Authority and a member of the State Workforce Investment Board.

Margo Lukens is associate professor of English and director of academic programs in Innovation Engineering at the University of Maine. Since 2005 Professor Lukens has been working on the development of the groundbreaking INV curriculum, and shaping the programs available to UMaine students. Professor Lukens, former chair of the University of Maine Department of English, also co-directs the University’s Foster Center for Student Innovation, helping students from all major fields and specializations become innovators and entrepreneurs. Since 2010 she has overseen the training of faculty in the University of Maine System (and beyond) in the teaching of Innovation Engineering® courses.

Her work has included producing and directing Native American plays on campus and in the region, and generally working to make things real whenever possible. She is a founding member of the Radcliffe Pitches, the Orono Community Theatre, the Stillwater Community Arts organization, and the band Velma: “the love child of Ella Fitzgerald and Lyle Lovett.”

Jesse Moriarity is the coordinator of the Foster Center for Student Innovation and also works heavily with the Target Technology Center at the University of Maine. Most of her time is spending providing business and project counseling service to students and community members. Previous to the University of Maine, Jesse worked at Bangor Hydro Electric Company as a web and graphic design. She is a University of Maine graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a minor in New Media. She sits on the steering committees of Fusion Bangor, Realize Maine Network, Mobilize Eastern Maine and the Environmental Tech board of the Maine Technology Institute.

Angela Marcolini is the Innovation Engineering Outreach Coordinator at the University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation. She has been active in creating Innovation Engineering course curricula and programming at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. Her current projects include providing support to institutions that are licensing the Innovation Engineering curriculum as well as collaborating with local schools and organizations to develop meaningful educational experiences in both physical and virtual environments.  Angela received a bachelor's in English from Coastal Carolina University and went on to earn a master's in English and a graduate certificate in Innovation Engineering from the University of Maine.  Angela is also the current chair the Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce’s Building Bridges steering committee.