Alena
Alena studied electrical engineering at Stanford. After graduation, she worked for a cybersecurity startup before spending four years at Google as a software engineer.
Kirby C.
Kirby holds a PhD in French with a concentration in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a Senior Lecturer of French at Boston University.
Miki
Miki received her PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at UIUC. After receiving her BA magna cum laude from Macaulay Honors College at Lehman College, CUNY, she completed a U.S. Fulbright grant in Nepal, worked at the Harvard School of Public Health and NIH, and did MA studies at Universität Heidelberg in Health and Society in South Asia.
Ryan Ra.
Ryan is currently finishing a PhD from MIT in Philosophy. During the next academic year, he will be a Visiting Scholar in Ethics of Technology at Phillips Academy at Andover, and a Research Affiliate at MIT in the Philosophy Department.
Hector
Héctor holds a BS from the University of Puerto Rico and a PhD in Neuroscience from UT Southwestern Medical Center. After completing his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, he returned to Puerto Rico with a commitment to fostering education and applying neuroscience-based approaches to improve student performance at all levels.