Tara Chklovski

Founder and CEO, Iridescent

Tara Chklovski is the Founder and CEO of Iridescent, a global science, technology & engineering education nonprofit.

Iridescent’s mission is to bring the world’s most cutting edge STEM innovations to the world’s most needy children. It does this by relying heavily on scientists and engineers as well as parents.

Over the past decade Iridescent has trained more than 3,000 scientists and engineers to inspire and support more than 30,000 underserved children and parents. Its two core programs are the Curiosity Machine and Technovation.

Tara has an undergraduate degree in Physics, a M.S in Aerospace Engineering, and is a part-time faculty member at the Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California.