Who We Are
Ariel Waldman
Research Affiliate
Ariel Waldman, IFTF Research Affiliate, is an open science strategist, interaction designer, and the founder of Spacehack.org, a directory of ways to participate in space exploration. Recently, she founded Science Hack Day SF, an event that brings together scientists, technologists, designers and people with good ideas to see what they can create in a weekend.
Ariel also sits on the advisory board for the SETI Institute‘s science radio show Are We Alone?, is a contributor to the book State of the eUnion: Government 2.0 and Onwards, and is the founder of CupcakeCamp. In 2008, she was named one of the top 50 most influential individuals in Silicon Valley. Previously, she was a CoLab Program Coordinator at NASA, a Digital Anthropologist at VML (a WPP agency), and a sci-fi movie gadget columnist for Engadget.