Summary
Zarinah Agnew is a Director of Research and interdisciplinary leader with 11 years of experience bridging neuroscience, behavioural science, and collective intelligence practice from San Francisco. She combines deep empirical expertise in fMRI, neuroanatomy and the mirror neuron system with hands-on experimental design to study motor systems, speech and social behaviour, developed through academic roles at Imperial, UCL and UCSF. As founder-level leader across organizations like Irrational Labs, District Commons and the Social Science Observatory, she translates lab-grade science into community-building interventions and public engagement. Currently steering research at The Collective Intelligence Project, she uniquely blends futurism and collective intervention design to scale evidence-based social change. An engaging public speaker and science communicator, she brings rare fluency in both technical neuroimaging methods and real-world program leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MRes., Integrative Neuroscience, MRes., Integrative Neuroscience at The University of Manchester
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Imperial College London
English, Spanish