Healthcare & Wellbeing Mentors in the 2023 Responsible Tech Mentorship Program
This year we’re joined by 115 volunteer mentors and 375 mentees from nearly 35 countries. Mentors work at startups, non-profits, in government, at large companies, and even run their own organizations. Many of our mentors are returning for a second time, and some have been with us since the very first cohort in 2021.
Mentorship pods have been divided into subgroups by speciality, and here you’ll find a list of all the mentors in Tech & Wellbeing and Responsible Tech in Healthcare.
Tech & Wellbeing and Responsible Tech in Healthcare are linked by their shared commitment to enhancing human health and quality of life through innovative and ethical technological advancements. Technology has revolutionized healthcare by enabling more accurate diagnostics, personalized treatments, and efficient data management. Simultaneously, wellbeing emphasizes a holistic approach to health, encompassing physical, mental, and emotional aspects. Responsible Tech in Healthcare ensures that technological solutions prioritize patient safety, data security, and equitable access. Both fields aim to empower individuals with the tools to take control of their health and well-being, fostering a symbiotic relationship that leverages innovation for the betterment of human lives.
Read about the mentors leading this charge in 2023 for All Tech Is Human (listed in alphabetical order):
Kopar Agarwal
Tech & Wellbeing
Rijul Arora
Healthcare & Wellbeing
A Certified Digital Workplace and Wellness Educator, Rijul’s vision is to enable people to lead a healthy relationship with technology. A TEDx speaker, highest-rated Udemy instructor, coach and Amazon bestselling author, Rijul is a Digital Wellness and Microsoft 365 Specialist. He’s consulted with leading Digital Wellness companies, including UnPlugHQ, Screen Time Action Network, and the Digital Wellness Institute. He’s also the head of LookUp India, a youth-for-youth social venture dedicated to helping young people thrive in the digital world. He was also featured among Bagby's Top 28 Thought Leaders in Digital Wellness! His work has been featured in Media Handles like National Public Radio (NPR) US.
Rijul is a millennial on both sides - completely addicted to technology, left it entirely, and now has a healthy relationship with it. He is an ardent advocate of using tech in moderation with a focus on digital wellbeing and personal growth.
More on his profile: www.rijularora.com
Ryan Bell
Tech & Wellbeing
Ryan Bell is the Founder & CEO of Tech Balance, a start-up based in London, England, that helps students improve their relationship with technology. He is the host of LookUp UK, a Certified Digital Wellness Educator, Certified Life Optimization Coach and Humane Technologist. Since 2021, he has secured Innovate UK funding on three occasions, helping Tech Balance create and implement various digital wellbeing solutions, including a diagnostic survey, coaching, workshops, and keynotes, impacting over 1000 students to date. As an Innovate UK Young Innovator, Ryan is currently leading a project for Tech Balance which aims to build a platform to help university students better manage their screen time.
Anna Butuzova
Tech & Wellbeing
Anna Butuzova is a learning experience designer, educational consultant, and public interest technologist with over 8 years of experience analyzing, enhancing, and scaling learning experiences to invigorate learners. She helps organizations discover and create learning journeys that promote learners’ enjoyment, skill development and mastery of real-life knowledge application. Anna has worked with universities, nonprofits and private companies to design and prototype educational programs and trainings that promote and align with the entities’ strategic organizational goals and vision. Anna is passionate about building connections between nonprofits, entrepreneurs, public interest technologists and educators. She is currently advising startups and serving on the Board of Directors for Harvard Alumni for Global Women’s Empowerment, a non-profit dedicated to the empowerment of women through education, dialogue and connection among individuals working for women's rights and freedoms worldwide. Anna has a Master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor’s degree from John Cabot University. In the past, she was responsible for customer success and strategy in a wine logistics agency in Rome, Italy.
Chhavi Chauhan
Responsible Tech in Healthcare
Dr. Chhavi Chauhan is Director of Scientific Outreach at the American Society for Investigative Pathology and Director of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program at the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
She is a leader of the Women in AI Ethics Collective, Program Manager for the Women in AI Accelerate and Raise Programs, and an expert at the AI Policy Exchange. She is a biomedical researcher, expert scholarly communicator, and a sought-after mentor in the fields of scientific research, scholarly publishing, and AI Ethics, especially for women and minorities. She is a thought leader, a renowned international speaker, and a strong advocate for equitable and accessible healthcare and is an elected Board member for Society for Scholarly Publishing and an invited Board of Director for the Open Pathology Education Network, Digital Pathology Association (DPA) and the Digital Pathology Association Foundation. She sits at the intersection of scientific research, scholarly communications, science policy, medical education, and responsible tech in healthcare. Her vision is to provide equitable personalized healthcare to all, beyond geographies, and despite socioeconomic disparities.
She was named in the AI Makers 150 AI & Analytics Leaders & Influencers 2021 List and The 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2022 list and the Top 100 Women of the Future 2023 List.
Pariotosh Kulkarni
Responsible Tech in Healthcare
Renata Mares
Responsible Tech in Healthcare
Renata is an adaptation and public health consultant with 15+ years of infectious disease expertise as a public health nurse and researcher across Canada and the southern hemisphere. She is a certified infodemic manager with the WHO and has supported their work in training healthcare providers. She teaches public health and global and indigenous health policy and practice as a sessional nurse educator in Canada and a research assistant with the Jitsuvax project. She is the founder of Adaptable Folks Inc. and can be reached at renata@adaptablefolks.com.
Lyle Maxson
Tech & Wellbeing
Lyle Maxson is a pioneer of Transformative Entertainment, beginning his career as a creative director impacting thousands of people at the world's largest music festivals. His immersive design agency, The Courtiers, and passion for biohacking led to co-founding Andromeda Entertainment, a VR publisher bringing to market "Games for Good". With breakout hits like Audio Trip and Soundself brought to the masses through the rising VR industry.
He is the co-founder of GeniusX, a VR education platform focused on the next evolution of education as well as Entheo Digital a digital therapeutics company pursuing FDA clearance and the creation of a wellness technology marketplace within the intersection of mental health and experiential medicine. Lyle believes we can create a Metaverse that "upgrades the real world avatar that is you", and by addressing the world's mental health crisis and democratizing high quality education we can better humanity's relationship with technology along the way
Laura Walker McDonald
Tech & Wellbeing
Laura is a technologist, lawyer and strategist with more than 15 years of global experience in the aid and development space. Laura focuses on principled, practical and impactful ways to use and govern technology in global social change work. She brings together deep knowledge of technology policy, practice and people across humanitarian aid and development, with applied research, software product management, and human-centered design.
Laura currently serves as Senior Director, Digital Technology and Data Protection for the Regional Delegation for the US and Canada of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), where she advises on the impacts of technology on conflict, the conduct of hostilities and humanitarian action and leads related policy, learning and research initiatives. Before joining the ICRC in 2021, Laura was Senior Director, Impact and Outreach at the Digital Impact Alliance at the UN Foundation, where she lead their policy, impact evaluation, community and communications teams as well as the Principles for Digital Development. Prior to that, she worked at the Global Alliance for Humanitarian Innovation (GAHI), served as CEO at SIMLab and FrontlineSMS, early leaders in the field of Mobile for Development. Laura began her career working on humanitarian policy, innovation and accountability at the British Red Cross. She has consulted widely on organizational and technology strategy, research, and practice, and served on the Boards of the CDAC Network, Elrha, and the Warwickshire Domestic Violence Support Service, and the Funding Committee of the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.
Laura holds an L.L.M. in international development, law and human rights from the University of Warwick, UK, and an L.L.B. in Law, French and German from the University of the West of England, UK.
Cody Rutherford
Responsible Tech in Healthcare
Laure X Cast is the founder of GetWith, working on the problem of belonging and community. They are interested in building technology that supports our human needs for real connection and reduces dominance and extractive tech models. Laure has been part of the ‘responsible tech’ movement for a number of years, including as a board member of the Prosocial Design Network, a member of Aspen Institute’s Virtually Human working group, and a speaker at the Action Forum to End Social Isolation and Loneliness. Laure spends most of their time understanding systems around people and technology and designing a new approach, as well as helping other companies as a consultant around product-customer discovery. Prior to founding GetWith, Laure was the Head of Research at Marco Polo, and also had experience in product management, product marketing, independent film and documentary distribution and production, and non-profit work (and running a record store) earlier in their career. They’ve been a speaker at SXSW, Grace Hopper Celebration, Mind the Product Leadership Forum, ProductCamp Cascadia, and others.
Aanya Salot
Responsible Tech in Healthcare
Josh Steinberg
Tech & Wellbeing
Josh is the Chief Operations Officer at Swipe Out Hunger, where he is responsible for supporting the organization’s sustainability and developing internal and external human-centered tech infrastructure to engage the network of 450+ campuses. Throughout his career within government and nonprofit, Josh has developed a passion for understanding the sociopolitical and economic underpinnings of hunger and food insecurity in the United States, now focusing on impacted college students. Over the past two years, Josh has centered his personal mission to implement technology for increased access to public benefits and education at scale. Additionally, during the pandemic he co-created a program at CUNY to support over 4,000 students determine SNAP eligibility through a sustainable student-centered lens. Josh earned his Masters in Nonprofit Management at Spertus Institute in Chicago and recently completed the Rustandy Center Program for Nonprofit Operations Finance Professionals at the Booth School within University of Chicago. He lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife Shani and their two dogs.
Michael Vinegra
Responsible Tech in Healthcare