Mark and Rowena Braunstein are longtime contributors to MIT’s Annual Fund and recently established a charitable gift annuity in support of undergraduates. Mark cofounded the Atlanta chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum and is a member of the MIT Educational Council, a global alumni volunteer network that helps recruit undergraduates to MIT.
Early adopter. “I was interested in computing at MIT, but there was no computing major at the time,” says Mark, who is a professor of the practice in health informatics at the School of Interactive Computing in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Computing. He also has a degree in medicine. “Instead, I majored in Course 21B, humanities and science, which taught me how to think and work hard,” he says.
Giving back. “We’ve always donated because I felt MIT was a wonderful place and it has helped me a lot over the years,” says Mark.
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