Elizabeth Ricker Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done (Little, Brown Spark/Hachette) Highlights:-Winner of a 2022 Nautilus Book Award (international, juried award)-One of "12 Books to Start a Smart New Year" by The Wall Street Journal-One of the "Top Book Bites of 2021" by New York Times bestselling authors Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Adam Grant, and Dan Pink's Next Big Idea Club-Translations into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, and Russian under way What's in the book?*How to upgrade your memory, attention, self-control, and creativity using little-known tech that ranges from free to less than $500 -- and that you can use in 15 minutes a day.*A deep but practical dive into cognitive enhancement. Why does that matter? If you upgrade your brain, you upgrade your life.*Adventures in building neuro-electric devices and "Quantified Self" style experiments — learn how to do these things yourself!*Colorful characters and cutting edge brain research from the US, Australia, Germany, France, China, Korea, Japan, Israel, and other countries.*https://www.ericker.com/the-book.html

San Francisco, Ca

NeuroEducate's aim is to democratize neuroscience research and to personalize cognitive enhancement. *Awards/Honors/Media: 2-page profile in “Science Not Silence” (MIT Press, 2018), a mini-documentary entitled “Neuroportraits” at the March for Science (Lincoln Street Studios, 2017), selection for a TEDMED Frontline Scholarship (TEDMED, 2013).*Website at www.neuroeducate.com

San Francisco Bay Area

Bringing technological innovations in biotech, wellness, education, and artificial intelligence to market. Specialties: scientific and industry expertise, hiring and nurturing strong teams (especially outsourced and/or remote workers), designing new products and features from scratch, iterating toward product-market fit. *Recent work has included: a multi-chapter technical report reviewing the technology and science opportunities in the field of cognitive enhancement, the design of an online cognitive assessment to aid in low-cost, online research on cognition, and the product design of an artificially intelligent humor mobile app. *Recent clients include: the inventor of the Palm Pilot and the Palm Treo, the maker of a #1 iPhone app, a Fortune 500 company, and a leading venture capital firm. Clients have been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired.*Current and past honors/awards: Catalant network expert (5/5 stars)*Website at www.rickerlabs.com

San Francisco Bay Area

Squash instruction to groups and individuals. Over 100 students of all ages and experience levels ranging from 11 to 70 years old. *Awards/honors: Ranked #1 squash coach in California with all 5/5 star ratings (CoachUp app, 2017-2018). Employee of the Month Award (MIT Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center, 2011). Selected as speaker for MIT Freshman Pre-Orientation ("The Science of Squash", 2011).*Teaching philosophy: Use of technology and application of neuroscience research: real-time video feedback, journaling, visualization, active learning, Socratic pedagogy. Past consultation with MIT Teaching and Learning Lab on best teaching practices.*Website at www.squashfundamentals.com.

Ohio

Paid staffer in “battleground” state of Ohio. *Managed Get-Out-the-Vote operation for Montgomery County, including the city of Dayton and surrounding region. *Coordinated team of 17 field organizers, each organizer overseeing dozens of volunteers. *Captured 49.3% of the county vote (total: 117,000 votes for Hillary Clinton).

San Francisco, Ca

$70M+ funded online brain training and neuroscience research company; 70M+ users worldwide of mobile and web-based app, Lumosity. Media coverage by NPR, the Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, others. *Research Management: Managed research pipeline of dozens of international clinical trial collaborations (called the "Human Cognition Project") and collaborated closely with over 25 academic faculty including at Harvard, Stanford, and University College London. Defined research program objectives and requirements for new research agenda. Presented program updates to entire company. *Product management: Led 8-15 employees from concept to live page deployment of science page off main website; the latter received 2.6M unique visitors/month and was still in use years later. Led 5-10 employees to deploy new products to aid in research collaborators. *Press communications: Interviewed by Harvard Crimson and Alzforum.*Website at www.hcp.lumosity.com.

Cambridge, Ma

$29M funded biotechnology startup. Provided whole genome interpretation and analysis to pharma, biotech, universities, and celebrities such as Ozzy Osbourne. Coverage in New York Times, Nature Biotechnology, the Colbert Report, others. *Promoted from Associate Product Manager to Product Strategy and Business Development Manager. Reported to the CEO.*Led 3-8 designers and released testable prototype at a fraction of the projected cost and ahead of schedule. Created competitive intelligence portal surveying over 200 companies and presented weekly to senior management on company’s strategy.*Website at www.knome.com.

Greater Boston Area

Bootstrapped startup. Developed and sold group collaboration software to research labs, small businesses and non-profits in the US, Sri Lanka, and India.*Won over a dozen clients internationally, including accounts from a MacArthur Genius Awardee and a non-profit featured on Good Morning, Sri Lanka.*Responsible for sales, user adoption, product design. Grew sales funnel from 0 to 200 prospects in less than 6 months.*Website at www.slique.com

York, Pa

Paid staffer in “battleground” South-Central Pennsylvania. *Promoted to coordinate 17 field organizers, coordinated 7 voting districts, managed election day activities at Headquarters including legal ‘boiler room’*Efforts resulted in increase of Democratic voter turnout by 24% over 2004 results

Pittsburgh, Pa

Carnegie Learning produces intelligent tutoring system math curricula used by over 500,000 students nationwide. Acquired by the Apollo Group in 2011.*Research project on student usage patterns in common mistakes. *Presented analysis and recommendations to 30+ engineers and scientists.

Cambridge, Ma

In Professor Susumu Tonegawa's Lab (Professor, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT: 1987 Nobel Prize winner):-Investigated novel approach for disrupting neural connections in transgenic hippocampal memory mutant mice. In Professor Mitchel Resnick's group (Professor, MIT Media Lab: creator of Scratch and Computer Clubhouse Project):-Developed hardware for game teaching calculus concepts through movement; creative design direction of video podcast of pre-teens solving engineering challenges; mentored urban students through joint Media Lab-South End Technology Center program.In Associate Professor Laura Schulz' group (Associate Professor, MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Science):-Experimentally and computationally investigated causal learning in 3-5 year old children.

Master'S Degree

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High School