claire o’connell

Claire is a graduating junior at MIT studying Brain & Cognitive Science. She was born in England, lived in France until the age of 8 when she moved to Palo Alto, CA, where she lived until leaving for MIT . She is a dual citizen of the UK and Canada, and now calls her “home-base” Shanghai, China, where her parents moved in 2010.

She is currently working as the director of educational outreach at EyeWire (see below), a citizen science initiative that she cofounded during January of 2011. In her spare time, she loves running with her teammates on the MIT cross country and track teams, competing in the 3k steeplechase, and traveling absolutely anywhere! She believes that there is a profound connection between education and cognition, and aims to spend her life discovering that connection and using it to change global education. And she loves smiley faces. A lot. :)

We met up with Claire and Turner on a TTT hangout about crowdfunding initiatives.

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Claire and Turner and a group of MIT students will be biking across America this summer in order to inspire students to learn what they love.

find/follow them via their spokes site:

EyeWire was launched by a group of passionate and aspiring neuroscientists and computer scientists, mostly undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Elizabeth Bailey, Rachel Cuozzo, Alan Diaz-Romero, Emilio Gonzalez, Jonathan Gootenberg, Shaunak Kishore, Yinqing Li, Greg Lubin, Tomer Mangoubi, Claire O’Connell, Ami Patel, Laya Rajan, Christopher Smith, Jacob Steinhardt, Jessica Sun, Arvind Thiagarajan, and Leandro Burnes.

Amy Robinson talking about EyeWire at TEDxNijmegen: