Penrose is a love letter to science, and to you — its most intriguing practitioners and stewards.

ABOUT

We are full of admiration and gratitude for your contributions, and our mission is to support you with connection and community.

Our Values

We value trust over status, a generous culture over a transactional one, range over enclaves, and courage over comfort.

Within the Penrose community, we can let our guard down amongst true peers, and reconnect to the reasons we do our work. Together we can learn as much as we teach, and have fun doing it. Every member helps us create this safe, even sacred, space.

Trust

Generosity

We are a group of high-substance, high-integrity people. Our members play a consequential role in the science world. What matters to us is not fame or wealth.

We cross disciplines with a spirit of play and deep curiosity. The science world has silos aplenty but it's at its best at the intersections. Our members are researchers, inventors, founders, funders, executives, policy-makers, misfits, artists and storytellers from every corner: academia, startups, government, nonprofits, business, and finance.

Range

Courage

We are willing to disagree, hold multiple truths at once, and change our minds. We grapple with paradox and ambiguity as we practice civil discourse. We listen deeply and seek to understand one another. Together we summon fresh courage.