Danielle Olson is a Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at MIT and works as a Research Assistant in the Imagination, Computation, and Expressions (ICE) Lab within the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She serves as Founder at Gique (pronounced “geek”) Corporation, a Boston-based nonprofit 501(c)3 which exists to inspire and education youth in science, technology, engineering, art + design, and math (STEAM) through transformational learning experiences. She also works as a Virtual Reality (VR) Developer & Research Consultant for Mediate VR, an MIT Sandbox-funded startup which provides a cloud-based system for AI- and voice- driven collaboration in virtual reality. Danielle graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science & Engineering and a humanities concentration in Brain & Cognitive Science from MIT in 2014.

Erna Schneider Hoover, Ph.D.
Erna Schneider Hoover was born in Irvington, New Jersey and graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey and from Wellesley College with a