Ariel Ekblaw, founder of the Media Lab's Space Exploration Initiative, has been selected for the sixth cohort of Emerson Collective's Dial Fellowship. Ekblaw is the founding CEO of Aurelia Institute, a non-profit R+D lab, education center, and research organization. She joins a diverse cohort of nine other individuals, comprised of social entrepreneurs, scientists, lawyers, activists, and inventors.

The Dial Fellowship, a year-long program named for the journal founded by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was designed to provide leaders with new resources to help extend the reach and impact of their work.