Kristina Osborn

Kristina Osborn is an Invention Education Manager at the Lemelson-MIT Program, where she works with K–14 schools and organizations to expand access to invention education and build strong, sustainable partnerships.

At the core of Kristina’s work is a commitment to creating transformational learning experiences that connect students with meaningful problems, authentic contexts, and opportunities to see themselves as capable contributors to the world around them. Trained as an architect, she brings a design mindset to her work: understanding complex systems, centering the people within them, and turning ambitious ideas into practical, lasting change.

Before joining Lemelson-MIT, Kristina led partnerships for NuVuX, the partnership program for NuVu Studio, a microschool in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Over more than five years, she helped public, charter, independent, and international schools move interdisciplinary, project-based learning into a sustainable part of their educational programs. She worked alongside educators to bring design, engineering, and real-world problem solving into the classroom, and to shape programs around each school’s students, goals, and context.

Kristina later extended that same focus on meaningful, connected learning through work at Northeastern University and Knowledge Futures, building partnerships that connected students with real-world projects and expanded access to research and academic knowledge. Across these roles, Kristina has been drawn to how education must evolve alongside rapid technological and social change, and to creating learning experiences that prepare young people to navigate, shape, and contribute to a changing world.