Cassandra Overney
Founder at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCassandra Overney is a founder and PhD researcher at MIT Media Lab who builds human-AI systems that improve civic engagement and make community voices actionable for planning and redistricting. With a decade of experience spanning academic research, product development, and teaching, she has shipped tools like Coalesce, BoundarEase, Voice to Vision, and StoryBuilder that bridge qualitative community input and practical decision-making. Her work combines NLP, user-centered design, and mixed-initiative interfaces, and has been published and field-tested with city planning and school districts. An MIT DesignX and Sandbox-backed founder, she translates civic research into seeded ventures and production web tools. Outside of research she’s an avid baker and reader, a detail that surfaces in her emphasis on accessibility and narrative-driven design.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Media Arts and Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. in Engineering with a Concentration in Computing, Computer Science, B.S. in Engineering with a Concentration in Computing, Computer Science at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Lynbrook High School
Chinese, EnglishGithub contributions (4)
Helen-Yang/Lindale
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:79 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
superCodeTeam/Amity
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 month
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