James Jorasch
Founder and President
Chairman of the Board

James is the founder of Science House and the Science House Foundation, two organizations dedicated to promoting and advancing science, and to bringing the excitement of science to kids around the world. James likes to keep busy so he is also a trustee of the Math Museum, an organization focused on creating the nation’s first museum exclusively for math and is a co-founder of HandHold Adaptive, a company dedicated to bringing 21st century technologies to the disabled community, and HealthPrize Technologies, a healthcare startup. In addition James is the founder of Science House Capital which makes investments in high tech companies and is a member of New York Angels, the city’s largest angel investment group.

James is a parallel entrepreneur and a named inventor on more than 300 issued patents. Prior to starting Science House, James was head of Inventing at Walker Digital where he helped incubate a number of businesses over a 15 year period, including Priceline.com and RetailDNA. A frequent speaker at conferences, James has appeared on CNN and in Forbes magazine. He received a B.S. and MBA degree from Cornell University.

Rita J. King

Executive Vice President of Business Development

Rita’s lifelong passion for science started in childhood when she first learned about quarks. In 2006, she founded Dancing Ink Productions, a company with global clients focused on a new culture and economy. With collaborator Joshua Fouts, she most recently co-directed IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education and Work, an interactive project for educators focused on science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics.

She’s currently a Senior Fellow for Social Networking and Immersive Technologies at the Center of the Study of the Presidency and Congress in Washington, DC, and recently served as Innovator-in-Residence at IBM Analytics Virtual Center. Her art explores the creation of meaningful common space. She currently serves as Futurist at NASA Langley’s think tank, the National Institute of Aerospace.

Joshua Fouts

Executive Director

Joshua Fouts is a technologist, futurist, gamer and entrepreneur who has worked at the forefront of exploring and chronicling the evolving use of emergent science and technology for culture, journalism, public policy, academia and the private sector.

Since 2007 he has been collaborating with Rita J. King the founder of Dancing Ink Productions on a groundbreaking series of projects that explore the development of a new global culture and economy. Their 2011 project, “IMAGINATION: Creating the Future of Education & Work,” explored the intersection between K-12 science education, technology evolution and 21st Century workforce preparedness.

Joshua co-founded and directed two think-tanks at the University of Southern California, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, the first foreign policy think-tank dedicated to exploring public diplomacy; and the Online Journalism & Communication Center which published the Online Journalism Review, the first digital publication of its kind. In 2005, he was the first person to propose and direct a project illuminating how virtual worlds could be used for cultural relations. He began his career as a Presidential Management Fellow at the US Department of State.

He is a senior fellow for Digital Media and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress and a Next Generation Fellow at The American Assembly. He speaks Brazilian Portuguese.

Gabi de Wit

On Leave

Gabi is studying a D.Phil in Physical Chemistry at the University of Oxford, where she is building and testing new designs of ion imaging microscopes. While light microscopes use photons to form a magnified image of a sample, ion imaging microscopes use ions (molecules which have lost an electron) generated from the surface of a sample by lasers. Ion imaging provides a chemical map of a sample – e.g. the distribution of proteins or biomarkers within a tissue section – with a spatial resolution of a few micrometers (about the size of a large cell) using current instrument designs.

Before starting her D.Phil, Gabi was on the founding team of MicroGlobalScope and was Foundation Coordinator at Science House Foundation.