COLLABORATORS

MIT MEDIA LAB

In a world where radical advances in technology are taken for granted, Media Lab researchers design technologies for people to create a better future. 

Now, in its fourth decade, the Media Lab continues to check traditional disciplines at the door. Product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to invent—and reinvent—how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

NEW AMERICA

New America is a think tank and civic enterprise committed to renewing American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the Digital Age. We generate big ideas, bridge the gap between technology and policy, and curate broad public conversation.

Structurally, we combine the best of a policy research institute, technology laboratory, public forum, media platform, and a venture capital fund for ideas. We are a distinctive community of thinkers, writers, researchers, technologists, and community activists who believe deeply in the possibility of American renewal.

HARVARD T.H. Chan school of public health

The mission of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is to improve human health through better nutrition and lifestyle. The Department strives to accomplish this goal through research aimed at an increased understanding of how diet influences health at molecular and population levels, the development of nutritional strategies, informing policy, the education of researchers and practitioners, and the dissemination of nutrition information to health professionals and the public

FUNDERS

the rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission—unchanged since 1913—is to promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world. A science-driven philanthropy focused on building collaborative relationships, the Foundation identifies and accelerates breakthrough solutions to the world’s greatest challenges in order to make opportunity universal and sustainable. In collaboration with its talented and passionate partners, the Foundation’s efforts are focused on cultivating transformative change in health, clean energy, food, and economic equity.

Aetna Foundation

This project is supported in part by a grant to New America by the Aetna Foundation, a national foundation based in Hartford, Connecticut that supports projects to promote wellness, health and access to high-quality health care for everyone. The Aetna Foundation mission is to promote wellness, health, and access to high-quality health care for everyone, while supporting the communities we serve. The views presented here are those of the project team and not necessarily those of the Aetna Foundation, its directors, officers, or staff.