Tim Dingman is a Venture For America Fellow. After graduating from Brown in 2012, he moved to Detroit and began work as an engineer at Accio Energy, a wind power startup. Tim is also the co-founder of Rebirth Realty, an initiative to restore abandoned houses in Detroit.
Andrew Yang
Venture for America Made This Young Easterner a Detroit Believer
I found my future on Twitter. Two weeks into a summer research internship in Singapore that I had already lost interest in, I saw the tweet that would change my life. It linked me to an article describing the kickoff event for Venture For America, a new program dedicated to placing top college graduates in startups in economically troubled cities. I knew right away what I would be doing with my first two post-collegiate years. The application process started with a written submission followed by a phone interview, and culminated in a day of group and individual interviews by VFA board members and staff. After a few tense days, VFA founder and CEO Andrew Yang called me with an offer.
