
Sherry Lassiter
President of Fab Foundation, Program Manager at Center of Bits & Atoms - MIT
Sherry Lassiter
CEO and Director
The Fab Foundation
and
Director
Fab Lab Program @ MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms
Sherry Lassiter is one of the architects of the MIT global initiative for field on-site
technology development, the Fab Lab program. A Fab Lab, or as users like to call it,
Fabulous Laboratory, is a rapid prototyping platform for technical education, innovation
and personal expression. The Fab Lab network includes over 1000 digital fabrication
facilities in 87 countries. Lassiter is President of the Fab Foundation, a non-profit
organization committed to building technical capacity in a locality, improving
individuals’ abilities to develop themselves and their communities and bringing access
to tools and knowledge that cultivate and support innovating practices. Lassiter is
currently engaged in the deployment and growth of Fab Labs around the world,
enabling grassroots technology development by, for and of the community.