Magali Eaton Brings Deep Innovation Programming Experience to Center ICE

February 13, 2023

We welcome Magali Dieny Eaton as the new associate director of Center ICE. In her position, she will focus on growing the Center's university, community, and state-wide footprint through inclusive program building, and partnerships with local, state, and regional ecosystem players, starting with taking a leadership role in deploying RISE UP programming.

RISE-UP, or Resilient Innovative Sustainable Economies via University Partnerships, is a collaboration of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and 401 Tech Bridge (a division of the University of Rhode Island Research Foundation). Together, these organizations leverage complementary technical expertise, collectively develop and commercialize scalable technologies, and build a workforce for industries of the future.

Magali is joining us from the University of Washington CoMotion where she led the innovation training department and spearheaded regional ecosystem building efforts around training the innovators of the future, with a strong focus on broadening participation in innovation and entrepreneurship.

In a past, life before she began working with startups, she practiced law in France and in Seattle. She managed intellectual property portfolios and transactions for clients in a wide range of industries. In her spare time, she also founded and helped build a couple of youth leadership and education organizations.

A member of the New York bar, she holds law degrees from Universite Jean Moulin (international law and human rights) and Universite de Strasbourg (intellectual property law) in France, and an LLM in intellectual property law from the University of Washington where she attended thanks to a Fulbright scholarship.

Magali is bringing her enthusiasm for fostering inclusive innovation and ecosystem building to Center ICE.

In her free time, she likes to climb mountains, socialize with her bees, and paint.