Layne Jackson-Hubbard wakes up in a hospital room with a head wound and no memory of how she got there.
Layne Jackson Hubbard is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder and is the founder of MindScribe, a startup company working to empower early childhood development through creative technologies. During her undergrad at CU Boulder, she successfully spoke before the Board of Regents to create a new Neuroscience degree for the university's students. She has a B.A. in Computer Science and graduated #1 in her class. Her research is funded by the Chancellor's Fellowship.
This story originally aired on October 14, 2016 in an episode titled “Still Myself.”
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