Alex Perez

Alex Perez is a high-school graduate. He has studied anthropology in college, and was accepted to a handful of University of California campuses. Currently, he works in Silicon Valley as a Data Center Engineer. He owns a small business, Rabbit Hole Computing, which focuses on computer storage solutions for legacy computer systems. He has been a mentor to SugarLabs students, assisting their growth, for many years.

Claudia Urrea

Claudia Urrea is the Senior Associate Director for pK-12 at the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL). Claudia was born in Colombia, where she received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from EAFIT University. Claudia received her master’s degree in Educational Media and Technology from Boston University, and her doctorate degree from the MIT Media Laboratory. Her Ph.D. thesis studied the implications of one-to-one learning in a rural setting in Costa Rica. Claudia worked for 5 years as the Director of Learning for One Laptop Per Child, collaborating with SugarLabs in that role. She has been in the board of SugarLabs since 2010.

For the past 25 years, Claudia has helped multiple governments and non-government agencies- The New York Academy of Sciences, Schlumberger Excellence in Education Development, International Development Research Centre, among others- to empower and support schools and communities of learners to evolve from traditional teaching methods into progressive learning environments. She has also a research scientist position with the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. She has taught several classes at the Harvard Summer Program and Early Childhood Development program at Tufts University.

Lionel Laské

Lionel Laské has been active member of Sugar Labs community since 2008. Lionel Laské was board member and co-founder in 2008 of the OLPC France grassroot. OLPC France launched and maintained from 2009 to 2018 several deployments of XO laptops on Sugar in Madagascar and France. Since 2017, OLPC France hold a deployment of 500 Android tablets on Sugarizer in France. OLPC France organized three SugarCamp in Paris in 2009, 2011 and 2014. Lionel Laské is the author of 8 Sugar activities and is the author and the lead developer of Sugarizer, a port of Sugar on any device. Lionel Laské was mentor for SugarLabs during Google Summer of Code 2013 to 2019 and was mentor for Google Code-In in 2015 to 2019.