Like so many other Americans, I was quarantined in my apartment on May 25th when George Floyd died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killed at the hands of the police officers who held him in custody. As peaceful protests followed in my current city of New York, I participated in them. When…

How Transdisciplinary Design Liberated me to be a Better Entrepreneur Posted on December 17, 2019 Five months ago, I left a good-paying corporate job, the best team I have worked with, and Salt Lake City, my home for the majority of my college life; I uprooted and moved to New York City and the unknown so I could pursue a…

A journey of self decolonization through design Posted on November 19, 2019 I sat on a plastic chair at a busy cafe in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, and checked my dusty watch over and over again, then scanned the busy road for the vans that were supposed to pick us up for the long drive to…

Equitable Capitalism Posted on October 18, 2019 A town meeting with stakeholders in the diamond-rich country in Sierra Leone. “Equitable Capitalism” seems like a paradox, joining two words that could not be more different: “Equity:” impartial, equal distribution of opportunities — and “capitalism:” a term that, in its extremes, evokes the massive…