Erik Blankinship

Erik Blankinship received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Laboratory. He also has an M.Ed. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in English Literature with honors from the University of Maryland at College Park where he was a recipient of the Jim Henson Award for Projects Related to Puppetry. He has consulted for France Telecom, Motorola, Intel Research, and Ricoh Innovations on educational, assistive, and communication technology. While a student at MIT he was awarded an Intel fellowship, an Interval Research fellowship, a Media Lab Europe fellowship, and was an active member of the MIT community serving as a Graduate Resident Tutor for four years.