Panel: Channeling Creativity

Panel: Channeling Creativity

Mags Harries
Award-winning, Cambridge-based visual artist, who has completed over 30 major public art projects with her husband /collaborator Lajos Heder in cities throughout the US and abroad. Early in her career, Harries created the well-known Glove Cycle for the Porter Square T- Station, adjacent to Lesley’s new Lunder Arts Center.

Eric Lander
MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Biology at MIT. Founding director of the Broad Institute. Lander is co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. His research is dedicated to the promise of the human genome for medicine, including his important work to develop a molecular taxonomy for cancers.

Tod Machover
Composer and innovator in the application of technology in music. Professor of Music and Media, The Media Lab, MIT, Director of the Hyperinstruments/ Opera of the Future group and Co-Director of the Things That Think and Toys for Tomorrow consortia. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music, 2012.

Dr. David H. Rose
Developmental Neuropsychologist, co-founder of CAST and Universal Design for Learning, whose mission is expanding educational opportunities for all students, especially those with disabilities, through innovative technologies. Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Kara Miller
Panel Moderator, host and executive editor of The Innovation Hub from WGBH and Public Radio International. Miller also contributes to “The Takeaway,” a national radio program, and WGBH’s “Morning Edition.” Her writing has appeared in The National Journal, the Atlantic.com, the Huffington Post, The International Herald Tribune, and the Boston Globe.