Dr. Seemay Chou has a longstanding interest in finding ways to increase access to opportunity. She is the Chief of Strategy at Astera Institute, a non-profit foundation that funds and operationalizes a broad range of projects that accelerate societal progress. Dr. Chou is also the co-founder and CEO of Arcadia Science, a research and development company focused on leveraging biological diversity for technological innovation. A scientist herself, Dr. Chou is a Pew Scholar, former Assistant Professor in Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, and received a PhD in Molecular Cell Biology from UC Berkeley.