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Farhad Attaie
Co-Founder, Chief Team Builder
My drive? I am the chief energy officer and co-founder of hellosmile, hellolab, and helloconnect. Together we are transforming children's health care to be awesome!.
Dr. Nazanine Attaie
Co-Founder & Controller
My joy? I am a dentist a mother of two and a passionate hellosmiler responsible for quantifing the numbers making sure our team is consistently giving the highest levels of care to every child, family, and community we engage.
Sahar Ghaheri
Industrial Design Pratt
My passion? Creating positive action and social consciousness through design, by partnering with non-profits, community-based organizations and companies to develop products and solutions for the communities they serve.
Liz Burow
Lead Design
My expertise? Turning complex problems into holistic and systematic solutions, development/ implementation of service design into a physical experience, teaching design thinking to business leaders, visualizing information via storytelling.
Dr. Alibaba Attaie
Dental Specialist, Co-Founder
My happiness? Being known by my younger patients as Dr. Ali Baba. I’m also a pediatric dental specialist, director of the pediatric dental medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. Co-founder of hellosmile, hellolab, and helloconnect.
Marco De la Cruz
Student Fellow - Web Design and Development - Parsons
My secret? By day, design technology student, by night web developer for innovative start-ups. I work with companies to design, develop, code, wireframe, illustrate and translate brand identity into exciting interactive on-line experiences.
Ashley Thorfinnson
Industrial Design
My hope? As a designer I collaborate to discover opportunities and develop products, systems, and solutions that affect change on numerous scales by careful consideration to aesthetics, materials, context and intent.
Erick Melendez
Lead Design, Brand Management
My love? As an art junkie and graphic designer extraordinaire, I am a devoted information sense maker and sculptor of visual messaging. To me the big picture as well as the fine details matters when communicating your values.
Rikard Saven
Graphic Design
My Fear? “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” -williamson Rikard started at the lab while attending Parsons school of design, and continues to be a change agent..
Sana Iqbal
Student Fellow Architecture Pratt
My experience? Using my education in design and management to create business strategies and design solutions. Where am I headed? Towards a masters degree in architecture, with the goal of making people’s lives better.
Dr. Rebecca Poling
Health and Happiness Mentor
My Pride? Dr. Poling is a world class orthodontist and the founder of ITI courses an innovative online platform that makes education accessible, inexpensive, and efficient..
Emily Sappington
Student Fellow Carnegie Mellon
My hope? To be an agent of integration between the fields of psychology and design, empowering users by designing more helpful and enjoyable interaction and service design solutions.
Yasi Hashemzadeh
Strategy
My Vision? As a psychologist, community builder and a leader I work with people at all different levels. I strive to create an environment where individuals together work in harmony to change the future.
Bobak Zonoor
Student Fellow Stony-brook Medical School
My Dream? We live on the Earth for a short amount of time. Be happy and do something and you will be remembered. Medical student, health and happiness intern, and (when time allows) a writer.
Mir Haque
IT magician
Mir is one of those unique individuals who can work fulltime, take care of his family, get straight A's, and make it all look easy. He is a born problem.
Ardavan Hashemzadeh
Born to immigrant student parents in the middle of America, grew up on the west coast and am now living on the east. Before meeting the love of my life electronics were my only passion, during which time I have accumulated a plethora of.
