Dani Maskit

Chief Ursine Officer
Trustee

Dani Maskit has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Caltech, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College, and did postdocs at MIT and Stanford. Since leaving academia she spent two decades in the world of high-end visual effects for feature films, and remains an active member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Daniel is currently at Meta where she seeks to shape the future of the Metaverse. 

Dani is proudly Autistic and is involved in advocacy work around making workplaces, and broader society, better at harnessing the strengths of neurodivergent people. Her TED talk is changing people’s understanding of what it means to be autistic. Dani is an avid runner of marathons and ultramarathons. She is obsessed with bears and has spent time visiting both black bears in Northern Minnesota, and polar bears in Svalbard, Arctic Norway.