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Britt Harris grew up in New Orleans, LA and graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in 1999. After high school, she enrolled at Louisiana State University and was very active on campus and served as a leader in many organizations including Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc, Black Student Union, NAACP, Image and Style Committee-Student Union. She graduated from LSU in 2003 with a B.S. in Management Information Systems and joined Accenture in 2004. She designed innovative IT systems and solutions for Fortune 100 companies in the Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Aerospace and Defense, and Government industries. While at Accenture, Britt also started Bergeron Hale, a web design and database company that served small businesses and non-profits. She joined Vistaprint in 2009 as a Supply Chain Project Manager and she is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Technology, Innovation, and Education at Harvard University.

She is a social entrepreneur who is active in organizations that promote social and economic improvement. After hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, she started Cultivate Our Minds, a program that helps students learn to be enterprising and resourceful in an ever-changing and competitive business environment. She currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.