Priyanka Shekar

Priyanka Shekar is a music technologist, entrepreneur and educator building the new digital renaissance. She currently serves as Program Director at Real Industry, a non-profit transforming how students enter the media tech industry through experiential education, teaching at top-tier universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan and New York University. Priyanka will be teaching the inaugural batch of Real Startup this Summer, Stanford University’s first media x tech startup incubator class. Previously, she has founded startups in mobile music technology through Stanford University’s leading StartX and Graduate School of Business venture incubators. Priyanka studied on a Stanford Arts Institute Fellowship at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), the premier institute for music technology. She is passionate about helping young people design their careers, STEAM education, and is involved with the Stanford Alumni Mentor and Y Combinator’s Female Founders networks.