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Fellows

At PIF, you'll never go it alone. We hire annual cohorts of mid-to-senior career technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, and strategists.
Meet our fellows below.

Dr. Tyrone Grandison

Dr. Tyrone Grandison

Technologist, Change Agent

2014

  • Data Science and Analytics
  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
EJ Kalafarski

EJ Kalafarski

Former VP of Product at Onswipe. Creator of time-travel app Déjà Vu for iPhone. Brown University and Tufts University. Minimalist.

2014

  • Design and Experience
  • Product
  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
Gajen Sunthara

Gajen Sunthara

Former White House PIF and USDSer. Director of Innovation R&D at Boston Children’s Hospital, Founder at 1upHealth, and Senior Advisor at Harvard Medical School.

2014

  • Digital Health
  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
Jeff Chen

Jeff Chen

Data science at New York City Fire Department, NYC Mayor's Office, Halcrow. Applied Stats, Columbia University. Economics, Tufts University.

2014

  • Data Science and Analytics
Jeff Meisel

Jeff Meisel

APIs, Smart Cities, STEM, DC Startup Weekend Winner, NI Dev Relations and Product, 30+ articles, Chungaboo Founder, K-State EECE, UT McCombs

2014

  • Product
Julia Kim

Julia Kim

Creating/using media & tech to help people. Former Project Leader, USC Institute for Creative Technologies. History of Science/Harvard Univ.

2014

  • Marketing and Communications
  • Change Management
Julia Winn

Julia Winn

Founder & CEO of BetterFit Technologies (TechStars Boston), Product Manager at Ginger.io. Computer Science at Harvard College.

2014

  • Product
  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
Lea Shanley

Lea Shanley

Founder, Commons Lab. Co-Founder, Fed Community of Practice on Crowdsourcing & Citizen Science. GIS & remote sensing, University of Wisconsin

2014

  • Data Science and Analytics
Maia Hansen

Maia Hansen

Boston-sourced software architect with a penchant for bringing order to chaotic data. CV: Endeca, Crimson Hexagon, Broad Institute, et al.

2014

  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
Mikel Maron

Mikel Maron

Coder/Geographer. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, GroundTruth, Map Kibera, Moabi. UCSC, U Sussex. Tactfully ignores silos. Maps.

2014

  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
Rachel Gordon

Rachel Gordon

Manager of Mobile Analytics at The New York Times, Mechanical Engineering and Entrepreneurship at The University of Pennsylvania.

2014

  • Design and Experience
Robert Sosinski

Robert Sosinski

Reactive.IO Founder. Led engineering at Ticket Evolution, Sling Media and Time Inc. Cryptographer at US Air Force. MS at NYU and BS at UMD.

2014

  • AI/Machine Learning
  • Software and Cloud Infrastructure
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