Eri Gentry

Eri Gentry is an economist turned biotech+social entrepreneur and an advocate for citizen science. She helps technology reach the people who love it.

She is the founding President of BioCurious, the world’s first self-described “hackerspace for biotech,” home to the 3D DIY BioPrinter printer project, and one of FastCompany’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education.

Eri is a researcher and resident Biofuturist at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based futures research organization. In that role, she helps organizations navigate the zones between technology disruption, shifts in human identity, and the tides of social change with an eye to illuminating the future forces in science and technology that will transform how we live, work, and create change in the next decade.

Eri is a frequent public speaker and author. She's written for MAKE Magazine, IEEE Computer, Techonomy, IQT Quarterly and The White House blog. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, Forbes, Wired, and The Atlantic, and in the books Biopunk, Regenesis, and The Nature of the Future.

Eri was named a White House Champion of Change and included on Techonomy’s Top Ten list for 2013. She sits on the board of Summer.org, a STEM education organization devoted to bringing advanced technology into the classroom.

She is the past CEO and co-founder of Livly, a research company on a mission to end killer diseases, and VP of Open Innovation for Scanadu, a Silicon Valley startup bringing medical tools for the people to the people.