Arlene Ducao is a Co-PI and Founder of The DuKode Studioin Brooklyn, a Research Fellow at the MIT International Development Initiative, and a member of the MIT Media Lab’s E14 Startup Fund .
She is also a recent MIT Ida M. Green Fellow at the MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology group. At MIT, she launched OpenIR, a software initiative democratizing environmental maps for crisis management in NYC, Indonesia, and beyond.
She also invented MindRider, a brain-reading helmet now being developed by DuKode for community and consumer use.