Transportation innovator Robin Chase lectures Monday, April 3, on campus

Robin Chase, a transportation entrepreneur and co-founder/former chief executive of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world, presents Youngstown State University's Thomas Colloquium 7 p.m. Monday, April 3, in Stambaugh Auditorium.

The presentation is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at the Stambaugh box office or online at www.stambaughauditorium.com.

Chase, Start-Up Woman of the Year, is also the founder of Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing service in France; GoLoco, an online ridesharing community; and Veniam, a vehicle communications company building the networking fabric for the Internet of Moving Things.

She is on the boards of the World Resources Institute, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the National Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Transportation, among others.

Chase lectures widely, has been frequently featured in major media, and has received many awards in the areas of innovation, design and environment, including Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators, and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers. Chase graduated from Wellesley College and MIT's Sloan School of Management, was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow, and received an honorary Doctorate of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology.