Amy B. Smith
Amy Smith is an American inventor, educator, and founder of DLab at MIT. She works to develop technologies and build creative capacity internationally.
Smith was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her father, Arthur Smith, was an electrical engineering professor at MIT. Arthur Smith took his family to India for a year when Amy was growing up while he worked at a university there. I think that set a lot of things in motion for her. Its very different from growing up in a Boston suburb, he said. Smith says that being exposed to severe poverty as a child made her want to do something to help kids around the world. Living in India is something that stayed with meI could put faces on the kids who had so little money.
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