Elena M. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Elena is a Stanford senior studying the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) track of Symbolic Systems, an interdisciplinary major composed primarily of Computer Science with courses in Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics. She is also the first student to officially minor in Ethics and Technology at Stanford. Outside of her studies, Elena teaches a section for Stanford’s introductory Computer Science course and a Product Design course called “Designing Research Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems.” She co-created the Teach CS 4 Good program for high school students (teachcs4good.org) and is currently the President of Stanford’s Social Entrepreneurial Students’ Association (SENSA). She was a Donald Kennedy Public Service Fellow and has worked in a health-tech social enterprise as a product manager since Spring 2019 developing a concussion education product that will be used by 19 of the US Olympic Committee’s national governing bodies (USA Soccer, USA Gymnastics, USA Football, etc) and various medical institutions across the US. In her free time Elena loves to read, search for hidden gem Spotify artists and venture outside. Elena is eager to share her passion for developing strategies and policies that harness technology for its maximum positive impact while limiting its negative consequences. She hopes to illuminate how tech giants of today are quietly shaping our lives, minds and world, with her ultimate goal of empowering students to both demand more ethical products from today’s technology industry and to build the most positively-powerful tools of tomorrow.