Our Board
Jen Myronuk
Jen is the cofounder of STEM on Stage, a STEAM initiative to promote narrative science through living history film and immersive media. She’s the producer & director of Humanity Needs Dreamers: A Visit With Marie Curie and the producer & director of the upcoming immersive media production of Pursuit of Discovery: Lise Meitner & Nuclear Fission. She was the co-producer & director of Code4Rights, a video training series promoting social impact through the development of mobile apps. She serves as a board member of Women in Film and Video of New England. As a Silicon Valley native, she previously worked in tech and now lives in Massachusetts.
Max Pete
Max is a freelancer who specializes in website design and consulting. He is also a business coach and community manager. Max was born missing his left hand and coined himself the nickname, “The One Hand Wonder Man.” He also serves as a coach for kids with limb differences at Nubability. Max is based out of San Diego, CA. Reach out to Max on Instagram at @OneHandWonderMan or Twitter at @Max_Pete.
Aurora Meyer
Aurora is the APR Co-Chair for the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) St. Louis Chapter and the Mid-State Director for the Missouri School Public Relations Association. She currently serves as the Communications Manager for Columbia Public Schools. Over her 18-year career, Aurora has developed an impressive track record of increasing both the size and engagement of relevant audiences by using analytics to help guide strategic decision-making. She is recognized by her industry peers with multiple awards for social media strategy and campaigns in addition to a MarCom Gold award in 2019 and several National School Public Relations Association awards for her work in 2020. Aurora is a regular speaker and workshop presenter on social strategy, community engagement and analytics. A PRSA-accredited public relations professional, Aurora is entitled to use the APR professional designation.
Sam Hobish
Sam is a founding board member and Design With Us’s Design Director. He runs his own design consultancy, HOBE12, focusing on toy invention and industrial design.
Kellyanne Mahoney
Kellyanne is a National Board Certified Teacher and experienced curriculum developer who spent 13 years working in the Boston Public Schools. She is currently a Youth Program Specialist for Autodesk, focusing on creating K-12 STEAM learning content, managing education campaigns and programs, facilitating professional development for educators, and building strong relationships with the New England education community and beyond. For the past several years, Kellyanne’s work has also been centered on using design thinking to bridge the problems faced in schools with the problem of creating equitable onramps into the innovation economy for students. Kellyanne serves on the Board of Born Just Right, a non-profit focused on building creative solutions to help kids with disabilities live a more enjoyable life, and the Foundry, an adaptive reuse project to build a self-sustaining center for creativity and collaboration for the Cambridge, MA, community.
NICOLE HUGHES
Nicole Hughes (aka ‘Nico’ - she/her) is the founder of Glassable Productions and the playwright of Graceland Too, a new play that premiered at NY Theatre Festival 2022. As an impact producer, she has worked on documentary film campaigns, including Coded Bias on PBS/Netflix, and Together Film on Hulu’s To The End, Netflix’s In Her Hands, and LIFT on Amazon Prime. Nico is an advocate for social justice, disability rights, and inclusion in arts and education. Her recent work includes producing Columbia Business School Executive Education Digital Health Programs, curating 20+ global museum exhibitions for an AI-equity non-profit, and supporting the impactful work of the Lavender Rights Project. Nico is very proud to be a founding team member of EpiArts Alliance, a project of Design With Us, and holds a Masters of Arts degree in Spanish from the University of Edinburgh.