in Biomedical Engineering from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. in Chemical Engineering with an additional major in Biomedical Engineering and specialization in Cellular Manipulation from Carnegie Mellon University and her M.S. Mia Keyser is currently a Biological Engineering PhD Student at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Alberta and a master's in biotechnology from the University of Toronto. Isha is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and Director’s Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. In 2015, Isha coined the term "cellular agriculture" - officially creating a category for agriculture products produced from cell cultures rather than whole plants or animals. After co-founding Muufri (now Perfect Day Foods) and Clara Foods (now The EVERY Company) in 2014, she transferred her founding equity to New Harvest and used it to establish an endowment for cell ag research. ![]() In 2010, Isha published a review paper in the scientific journal Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, among the first handful of papers to ever discuss cultured meat in academic literature. She has been pioneering cellular agriculture since 2009, driven by a passion to see transformative technology create a better world. Isha is executive director of New Harvest, a nonprofit research institute that funds open, public cultured meat research. ![]() She loves to spend her free time with her family in nature. Britt lives in Southern California with her partner, Eric, and her 2.5 year old daughter, Lily. ![]() Britt has a Masters Degree in Organizational Development and a Bachelors in History and Communications. Before transitioning to cell ag fundraising in 2017, Britt worked in higher education philanthropy and served as the Director of Development for a private liberal arts college in Upstate New York. Britt has worked in all facets of fundraising over the last ten years, raising tens of millions of dollars and building foundational fundraising teams, designing revenue streams, and nurturing relationships with hundreds of donors. Philanthropy should never be transactional, but instead deeply relational and transformational. Britt believes strongly in the power of collective action and authentic connection. Britt joined New Harvest as our Director of Development after spending a decade raising funds for higher education, climate change, and food system transformation.
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