OLPCorps Cornell Mauritania/Team

About Us

Eli Luxenberg

-Project Lead

As someone who uses a computer everyday and has never attended a school without computers my education has been shaped by technology. Whether it is a projector not working or needing a fact that has slipped my mind, the presence of technology in my life is ever-present. I now understand this and realize that many other people around the world have the same potential to succeed, but lack the tools. My goal in the project is to set up the computers and infrastructure in Ecole 1 in order to give the tools to children that undoubtedly have the same potential as my classmates, but do not have the tools.

James Elkins

-Logistics Lead

Hi! I'm an sophomore information science major from Livingston, New Jersey. I've been interested in computers and related technology ever since I blew up my first computer in high school. As someone who often uses technology to answer questions, my goal is to enable others to be able to use it as a tool to enhance their own learning. I'm currently the web content editor of the Cornell Daily Sun, and I do research for Jeremy Birnholtz in the area of attention and focus online. I'm interested in ICT education, information visualization, information retrieval, and online journalism.

Alan Garcia

-Technology LeadAlan is a senior Information Science student at Cornell University. He has experience managing technical challenges on interdisciplinary teams seeking to instill social change or introducing novel ways of using and thinking about technology. He has worked with professors Phoebe Sengers and Tarleton Gilsepie, and interned at the MIT Mobile Experience Lab in the summer of 2008 under Federico Casalegno and David Boardman.

Nora Callinan

-Fundraising Lead

Nora is a recent December graduate from Cornell in Biology and Nutrition. She has a limited background in web design, but has always been driven to help people wherever she can. She is a part of Cornell OLPC to help with fund raising, brainstorming and local support in the Ithaca community.

Seth Luxenberg

-Government Lead/Translator

Coming soon!

Jawwad Asghar

-Pedagogical Lead

Coming soon!

Billy Podlaski

-Pedagogical Lead

Coming soon!

Charles Curwen

-University Liason

Coming soon!