Aparna Krishnan

Build things rather than adjust things. Co-founder of Mechanism Labs, UC Berkeley, ex-Head of Education Blockchain at Berkeley, Thiel Fellowship. Aparna is a Thiel Fellow and the co-founder of Mechanism Labs, a research & development lab focused on cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets and DeFi. She was the former Head of Education and Executive VP at Blockchain at Berkeley teaching the world’s largest university accredited blockchain course.