My life’s passion and purpose is to bring human civilization’s next technology revolution, biology, to the street—to the youth, to the misfits at the edges of culture, to the communities that never dreamed of biology as a medium for creative expression.

It is a historic moment. Biology as a technology is still misunderstood by the population, from the 1% to the grassroots. The infrastructure for biological engineering, from organism design tools to DNA assembly to organism implementation, is still nascent. We have an incredible opportunity, at this very moment, as the infrastructure for our bio-economy is being constructed: NOW is the time to empower the youth, to excite the misfits, to activate the marginalized. We must move the technologies for engineering biology from ivory towers and corporations to the street.

I have spent more than a decade developing technologies at the forefront of synthetic biology and organizing marginalized communities through the arts. I will combine these endeavors and bring STREET BIO to the MIT Media Lab.