ELab’s Team

• Elab’s core team is composed of faculty, student administrators, and researchers who work passionately and tirelessly with a shared vision along with its founder Rhea Alexander, an alumna as well, to build our community of support.

• Rhea Alexander
  Founder of DIGS.com; Founder + Director of the Elab; Assist. Prof of Strategic Design and Management; Board NYC Innovation Collective
  alexanrc@newschool.edu
  

  Rhea is the founder and director of the Entrepreneurial Lab. Started in 2014 to prototype a distributed model of an academic incubator with design at its core. Rhea has been actively involved in the startup community, sits on the board of a startup, and works closely with founders, investors, and industry experts. As a board member of the NYC Innovation Collective, she is actively involved with over 220 incubators and accelerators across the NYC area. Alexander is an innovation strategist, educator, author, and entrepreneur with expertise in interdisciplinary design approaches to entrepreneurship and social impact. She is a professor at Parsons School of design and has served in leadership capacities for both the graduate (Ms) and undergraduate (B.B.A.) programs in Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design. She has taught, developed curriculum and programs across undergraduate and undergraduate space for over ten years. An award-winning entrepreneur with over 21 years of experience, accompanied by her expertise in design, gives her unique advantages in the field and fuels her passion for sharing the positive impact design, innovation, and entrepreneurship can have on the ecosystem and on one’s self-actualization.

Elab Faculty Affiliates

• Rose Pember
  Co-founder Manifesto, LLC; Co-Founder Hodge; Part-time Faculty Parsons Strategic Design and Management; Facilitator + Mentor Entrepreneurship Cornell University
  
• Dr. Joseph Press
  Futures Advisor, Institute of the Future; Co-Founder IDeaLs; Visiting Professor of Innovation Design and Leadership Politecnico di Milano; Part-time Faculty Parsons School of Design, Strategic Design and Management
  
• Kiley Sweatt
  Director of Innovation, Oracle; Part-time faculty Parsons, Strategic Design and Management; Part-time Faculty William & Mary; Co-Founder The Wild
  

Elab 2020-21 Team

• Rashi Jadhav
  Design Strategist & UX Designer
  
• Tony Dang
  Venture Associate
  
• Darcy Keester
  Research Associate
  
• Jessica Franko
  Research Admin
  
• Bonnie Wu
  Social Media Intern
  
• Elijah Xia
  UI/UX Design Intern
  
• Sydney Henry
  Social Media Intern
  

Elab 2019-20 Team

• Tony Dang
  Venture Associate
  
• Heta Shah
  Venture Associate
  
• Rashi Jadhav
  Venture Associate
  
• Darcy Keester
  Research Associate
  
• Jiamin (Bonnie) Wu
  Marketing Intern
  
• Mckenzie Sullivan
  Admin Assoc. Website
  
• Krista Brown
  Venture Associate
  
• Moja Robinson
  Content Creator
  
• Vasuta Kalra
  Venture Associate & Researcher
  

Elab 2018-19 Team

• Ebba Mattsson
  Venture Associate
  
• Sasha Charlemagne
  Venture Associate
  
• Aditya Nair
  Venture Associate
  
• Victor Michud
  Venture Associate
  
• Cristina Iregui
  Venture Associate
  
• Shishir Raut
  Venture Associate
  
• Jeharra Pearl
  Research Associate
  
• Vinay Kumar Mysore
  Research Associate
  
• Holly Cargill
  Graphic Designer
  
• Nattakarn Tapasanan
  Research Associate & Data viz.
  
• Juan Herrera
  Research Associate & Data viz.
  

Elab 2017-18 Team

• Rose Pember
  Venture Associate & Researcher
  
• Alexandra de Rienzo
  Venture Associate
  
• Adrianna Kruyt
  Venture Associate
  
• Victor Michud
  Venture Associate
  
• Aryanna Martin
  Research Associate
  
• Vinay Kumar Mysore
  Research Associate
  
• Steven Hubbard, PhD
  Research Associate & Data viz.
  

Elab 2016-17 Team

• Rose Pember
  Venture Associate & Researcher
  
• Lissa Fedrizzi
  Student Administrator
  
• Vanya Mittal
  Student Administrator & Admin Assoc. Media
  
• Francisca Severino
  Student Administrator
  
• Pauline Hadad
  Admin Assoc. Media
  
• Amarie Baker
  Admin Assoc. Media
  
• Harold Padilla
  Research Associate
  

Elab 2015-16 Team

• Rose Pember
  Venture Associate & Researcher
  
• Samar Ladhib
  Student Administrator & Researcher
  
• Lissa Fedrizzi
  Student Administrator
  
• Vanya Mittal
  Student Administrator & Admin Assoc. Media
  
• Francisca Severino
  Student Administrator
  
• Limassol Zok
  Student Administrator
  
• Pauline Hadad
  Admin Assoc. Media
  
• Amarie Baker
  Admin Assoc. Media
  
• Henryk Stawicki
  Research Associate