Sep 1, 2017
Building empathy is a fundamental part of the design thinking process, and that often takes place through direct conversations. IOBY’s has developed an innovative way of pairing a tech-based crowdfunding platform with on the ground organizing to foster social change one small campaign at a time. In this episode,...
Aug 17, 2017
When working on social change issues, how do we stay positive? That is a question I asked EMILIA Gutierrez, Director of Online Engagement at Amnesty International USA. Emilia started her journey in social change work on the campaign trail for Obama and has experience working in new media. For all that tech...
Aug 3, 2017
In this episode, I speak to Stephanie Romig, a designer and social entrepreneur. As a designer, she leverages narrative design to create solutions for public spaces. We speak about the use of questions as a valuable but often overlooked tool for building stories that bridge different stakeholders. In addition to being...
Jul 22, 2017
In this episode, I speak to bike activist JP Amaral about narratives that change a city. When JP fell in love with biking in 2007, it was said that biking in Sao Paolo was impossible. By 2017, Sao Paolo had over 74 miles of bike lanes and a bike sharing program with over 1,000 bikes. I spoke to JP about...
Jul 6, 2017
In today’s episode Fay Darmawi, founder of the San Francisco Urban Film Fest, talks about the power storytelling to humanize policy work. Fay had been working in affordable housing finance for twenty years when the program supporting affordable housing financing was suddenly cut without any public outcry. She...