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Dr. Larson received her B.A. and M.A. from Stanford University and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University. She is currently Research Associate at Rice University's Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where she served as inaugural Director.  Larson has cultivated her work as a Fellow at Harvard University's Safra Center for Ethics, the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University's Graduate School of Education, among other institutions in the U.S. and abroad.