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Brigitte Berman, Leadership
Brigitte Berman is an accomplished researcher, speaker, activist and author. She is the co-founder of Pearl Star Entertainment, a full service think tank, recruiting out of leading universities in Cambridge, MA and also focusing on high level math solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. As a teenager, Berman became the youngest person to do a NASA mission and is a proud recipient of a NASA Ames Award for Group Achievement. She went on to participate in imaging at Virgin Galactic in the late 2000s. Prior to, she wrote the book Dorie Witt: A Guide to Surviving Bullies and has since reached over six million people speaking around the world, alongside notable activists and politicians like then Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel. She has lobbied and testified in congress for anti-bullying, educational reform and was instrumental in passing and implementing legislation in the state of Massachusetts, in conjunction with organizations like the Anti-Defamation League.
Brigitte is currently researching in abstract maths, focusing on topos theory (category theory and geometric logic), non-standard analysis and financial modeling with Nate Ackerman, a lecturer and researcher at Harvard University. In her free time, she enjoys tennis, squash, playing music, pinball and helping researchers craft and launch their brilliant ideas into promising start-ups.