Experiences

• MIT Media Lab, Director of the Community Biotechnology Initiative (2017-present)

• MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Principal Investigator & Technical Staff, Bioengineering Systems & Technologies (2012-2017)

• Massachusetts Cultural Council Member (2024-present) — appointed by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey for "demonstrated distinguished service, creativity and/or scholarship in the arts, humanities, or sciences.”

• Earth One Fellow (2024-present)

• Spirit of Asilomar Next Generation Leaders, Selection Committee Member & Fellow (2024-present)

• Experiment Foundation Science Angel (2024)

• Bay Bridge Ventures, Advisor (2023-present)

• TO.org Creative Activist Fellow (2022-present)

• Cambridge University Press: Biotechnology Design, Advisory Council (2022-present)

• Grow Your Own Cloud, Science Advisor (2021-present)

• MIT Center for Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems (M-CELS), Principal Investigator (2020-present)

• Global Community Bio Summit, Founder & Director (2017-present)

• Metafluidics, Founder & Editor in Chief (2017-present)

• How To Grow (Almost) Anything, Co-Founder & Head Faculty (2015-present)

• Arizona State University Public Health Technology, Advisory Council (2022)

• The Bridge Program, Co-Founder (2021-2022)

• Unlock Her Potential, Mentor (2021-2022)

• World Health Organization Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing (2020)

• Millipore Sigma, Sounding Board (2020)

• Manifest Boston, Advisory Board (2020)

• Beat The Virus, Founding Team Member (2020)

• EMW Community Space, Founder & Board President (2011-2018)

• Biodesign Challenge, Judge (2018)

• Cambridge Historical Society, Advisory Board (2017)

• Pao Arts Center, Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, Advisory Board (2016)

• International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM), Founder & Chair, Hardware & Microfluidics Tracks (2015-2016)

• Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program (LEAP), Fellow & Mentor (2012-2015)

• Marine Biological Laboratory, Physiology Course Guest Faculty (2014)

• Youth Cities, Medical Technology Advisor (2013-2014)

• Artscience Labs, Guest Lecturer, Guest Expert in Synthetic Biology (2012-2014)

• Cellanyx Diagnostics, Chief Engineering Officer (2011)

• Boston Progress Arts Collective, Community Arts Organizer (2004-2011)