Our Team

Koko started at MIT. We have been developing and evaluating online interventions for mental health for 10 years.

TEAM

Rachel Lu

Community Manager

Sabrina Muriithi

Operations Manager and Product Designer

Rob Morris, PhD

Co-founder

Kareem Kouddous

Co-founder

Rob Knowles

Head of Growth

Debra Barker

Head of Community

Mallory Dobias, UX Research

Rob Morris, PhD
Co-founder
Diamond Wiley
Community Manager & Admin
Kate Niederhoffer, PhD
Research
our
team
Rob Knowles
Head of Growth

ADVISORY BOARD

Rosalind Picard
Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT
Andy Grygiel
Chief Brand Officer, project44
Melissa Thomas-Hunt
Professor of Public Policy
John D. Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, UVA
Stephen Schueller
Associate Professor, UC Irvine
ADVISORY
BOARD
Tom Siegel
Co-Founder and CEO, Trust & Safety Laboratory Inc.
Rosalind Picard
Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT
Barr Taylor
Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford
Tom Insel
Former director of NIMH, Cofounder Humanest
Jessica Schieder
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook
James LaBelle, MD
Former CSO, Scripps Health

Fraser Kelton

Product, OpenAI

Margaret Laws

President and CEO of Hopelab

Stephen Schueller

Associate Professor, UC Irvine

Gina Sanders

Founder, Gina's Collective

Jessica Schleider

Assistant Professor

Stony Brook

Matthew Nock
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard

Mike Nolet

Founder, Live Better

Tom Insel

Former director of NIMH, Cofounder Humanest

Barr Taylor

Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Rosalind Picard
Professor of Media Arts & Sciences, MIT

Andy Grygiel

Chief Brand Officer, project44

Tom Siegel

Co-Founder and CEO, Trust & Safety Laboratory Inc.

Melissa Thomas-Hunt

Professor of Public Policy

John D. Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration

James LaBelle

Former CSO, Scripps Health

Koko’s mission is to make mental health accessible to everyone

All of our services are free. We take user privacy very seriously and we never sell data. We rely on donations to make our impact.

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