Over the years, I have worked as: a biomedical engineer inventing medical devices; a docent at California Academy of Sciences; innovation officer looking for assistive technology for the blind; host of a weekly science radio show; music detective making memory-sparking playlists for Alzheimer's patients.

I have a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University, a bachelor's degree in biology from Smith College, and I've studied biomimicry at Arizona State University. My current focus is expanding the use of biomimicry as an innovation tool to emulate nature's brilliant strategies to solve complex human problems.