Diana Skaar ’00, M.S. ’08, M.B.A. ‘08

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Diana Skaar ’00, M.S. ’08, M.B.A. ‘08 was appointed to Cartoon Network's STEAM Board of Advisors, where she will help advise, shape and inform Cartoon Network’s STEAM (Science, Technology Engineering, Arts and Math) efforts. Together with Skaar, the board aims to accelerate and expand Cartoon Network's reach and fulfilling its goal of giving creative confidence to the next generation of creators, animators and makers.

Skaar leads business development efforts for moonshot solutions involving robotic technologies. Since joining Google in 2008, she has led the partnerships effort for a number of initiatives across the company including Google Research, with a focus on machine intelligence, the Google Art Project where she has made artwork more universally accessible (including artwork at the White House), and she started the health apps ecosystem on Android when the platform was just launching. In addition to her business responsibilities, Skaar has demonstrated commitment to increasing the number of girls pursuing computer science and engineering and is an emerging thought leader on the issue within the business community.