Episodes
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Meena is a social innovation consultant and design strategist tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagement dedicated to tackling complex social challenges through human-centered design and community engagement.
With a background in social anthropology and design, she has worked across diverse settings, from urban slums to corporate boardrooms. Previously, Meena spent eight years at IDEO, where she led community engagement for OpenIDEO and advised IDEO Uâs initiatives. Her expertise lies in fostering collaboration, equity, and innovation to drive meaningful change. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand with Indian ancestry, she brings a global perspective to her work in social impact.
Meena was the Spring Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow Meena on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meanestindian/?originalSubdomain=nzand on Subtack: https://randomspecific.substack.com/
Credits:
Host: Anne-Laure Fayard
Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
Recorded at the Fidelidade Creative Studio, Nova SBE
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Adriana Valdez Young is a design researcher with more than 15 years of leading design research that focuses on centering the experiences of historically excluded and underrepresented people for startups, government, non-profits, and corporate clients. . She advises inclusive research at SOUR, a global design studio with the mission to address social and urban problems, servers as associate chair of the MFA of Interaction design at the School of Visual Arts, and writes about inclusive design for UX Magazine. Prior to that she led research and strategy at Stae, a platform for cities to manage civic data and new mobilities. She was the head of consumer research at littleBits, a STEAM platform for kids and educators to invent their own technology. And most recently, shecrafted community experiences at 3X3 and shaped communications, business development, and the urban design practice at Openbox. Adriana holds a BA in History from Brown University and an MSc in City Design and Social Science fromthe London School of Economics.
In this episode, Adriana reflects on her journey as "an accidental designer" - breaking and entering design. She talks about how her early passion for understanding context, her curiosity and her un-satisfaction with the status quo led her to design for social change. She reflects on co-creation and inclusive design, reminding us that all design should be inclusive.
To learn more about Adriana's work, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valdezyoung/
and check her website: https://www.welikeresearch.com/
You can also read her reflections on Medium: https://adrianavyoung.medium.com/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and peopleâs lives.
In this episode, we talked with Carlos Mendes Gonçalves, the founder and CEO of Case Mendes Gonçalves, a family business in Portugal. Casa Mendes Gonçalvesâ commitment to sustainability inspires the companyâs effort to transform the food system and create a model for a new way to work and live together within our communities and nature. Carlos tells us about Vila Feliz Cidade, a regenerative agriculture project that aims to integrate the economic dimension with social and environmental responsibility.
To read more about sustainability at Casa MG and about Vila Feliz Cidade: https://www.casamg.pt/en/sustainability/
Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard
Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard
Interview in Portuguese by Rita Nascimento
Quotes in English read by Claudio Silva
Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier
Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard
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Robert Fabricant is Co-Founder of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and systems thinking to clients looking for creative approaches to breakthrough innovation and expanded collaborations in social impact and community engagement. He leads an extremely diverse team with studios in Dakar, Mexico City, Mumbai, Nairobi and New York, leveraging Dalbergâs global footprint and capabilities. Much of his portfolio is focused on public health, serving as the lead design partner to USAIDâs Global Health Bureau. A born and raised New Yorker, Robert began his career at a local criminal justice non-profit focused on New York State court reform where he worked at both a grassroots and policy level to drive positive change in the lives of New Yorkers.
In this episode, Robert reflects on his journey from his work in criminal justice advocacy to becoming a systems designer with a focus on public health systems and social innovation. He talks about the importance of collaboration and taking a long-term horizon to make positive social change. As he critically reflects on his practice, he stresses the importance of thinking about power dynamics when doing design work with under-resourced communities in the USA and in the Global South.To learn more about Robert's work, follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertfabricant/
and check his website: https://www.fabricant.design/
To learn more about Dalberg Design: https://www.dalbergdesign.com/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Engin Ayaz, a transdisciplinary designer and strategist with a background in architecture, systems thinking, and interaction design. He is the co-founder of ATĂLYE, a design and innovation consultancy, which amplifies the impact of purpose-driven leaders by transforming people, places and experiences through the power of communities.
Engin received a dual degree in Architectural Design and Engineering from Stanford University, and a master's degree in Interactive Design and Media Arts from Tisch School of Arts, ITP of New York University.
His work has been exhibited worldwide andreceived awards from Core77, Architizer, Arkitera, World Architecture Community, and Good Magazine, among others.
Engin was the Fall 2024 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow Engin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enginayaz/
Learn more about Atölye: https://atolye.io/
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Victor Udoewa is Service Design Lead for the CDC (centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Prior to this role, Victor was Chief Technology Officer, Chief experience Officer and Service Design Lead at NASA. Prior to NASA, Victor served as the Director of Strategy at 18F, a civic consultancy for the federal government inside the federal government. Previously, as a Global Education Instructional Designer and Training Development Specialist at Google, he designedlearning experiences and learning software for people in low-to-middle-income countries around the world.
In this episode, Victor shared with us his "non-linear" journey to being a service designer: from being a teacher to working with USAID and then Google and NASA while being a health crisis and trauma counsellor. He shares the different definitions of service design and contrasts them with his perspective and practice in the public sector. He then explains why he talks about radical participatory design (rather than participatory design) and introduces us to relational design and pluriversal design.
To learn more about Victor's work, follow him on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/udoewa/
You can also read some of his academic papers:
Introduction to Radical Participatory Design: Decolonizing Participatory Design Processes
Radical Participatory Design: The Awareness of Participation
Relational DesignCredits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Rachael Dietkus is a social worker-designer. Her practice, research, and writing at the intersections of social work values, trauma-responsive principles, and care-focused design research methods. Rachael is the founder of Social Workers Who Design and an active member of the DesignJustice Network and the Social Work Futures Lab. Since September 2022, she has served as a Digital ServicesExpert in Design and Social Work and a Trauma-Informed Practice Subject Matter Expert with the United States Digital Service, a design and tech unit under the White House.
In this episode, Rachael reflects on the different civic and public interest roles she has had over the last twenty years to explore how social work and design are intrinsically connected in her practice. She explains how she encountered trauma-informed design and more recently trauma-responsive design. She stresses the importance of language, of care, of intentionality and relationality.
To learn more about Rachael's work, follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaeldietkuslcsw/
and check the Social Workers Who Design website: â https://www.socialworkerswho.designâ
To learn more about the topics we discussed:
'Trauma-Informed Care: A Sociocultural Perspective' / â â https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207195/â â
Social Work Futures Lab / â â https://www.socialworkfutureslab.orgâ â
Racism Untaught / â https://racismuntaught.comâ
Some of the references Rachael's made in the podcast:
Desmond Patton's / 'Applying Reflexivity to Artificial Intelligence for Researching Marginalized Communities and Real-World Problems' / â https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/7607e8e6-db3b-45c6-87c5-516e8e67ba08/fullâ Resmaa Menakem / â https://resmaa.comâ + â https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silenceâ Karen Treisman's 'Trauma River' / â https://media.churchillfellowship.org/documents/Treisman_K_Report_2018_Final.pdfâ AJ Singh's 'Justice Sensitivity is the Cure, Not the Sickness' / â https://ajs4dlg.substack.com/p/justice-sensitivity-is-the-cure-notâCredits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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JoĂŁo Brites is an entrepreneur, breakdancer, and agroforester who has lived in Portugal, Mexico, United States, Brazil and Spain (his current home). Currently, JoĂŁo is Director of Growth & Innovation at HowGood, a SaaS platform that helps companies measure, improve, and communicate their social and environmental impact. Prior to HowGood, JoĂŁo worked as Global Director of Sustainable Development at AB InBev and co-founded initiatives like Movimento Transformers, the Amazon Summer School, and Carbono Biodiverso. JoĂŁo is the recipient of Novaâs Impactful Alumni Award, the Do Something Ambassador Award, and was at age 19 one of the worldâs youngest participants at the WEF in Davos through the Global Changemakers Program. JoĂŁo holds a M.S. in Economics and a CEMS Masters in International Management from Nova SBE
JoĂŁo was the Spring 2024 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow JoĂŁo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jrbrites/
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music: Guilhem Tamisier
Art work: Guilhem Tamisier
The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE
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Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and peopleâs lives.
In this episode, we talked with Gilbert Nkpeniyeng, who after working as a program officer with Amplio Network, is currently doing his MPhil in Development Studies at Cambridge University (UK). Gilbert passionately believes that access to knowledge can change people's lives. He shares his personal experience with the Amplio Talking Book, an audio device designed for users with low literacy, he encountered while in primary school. He also tells about a project he implemented with women producing shea butter in Northern Ghana highlighting how all community members were involved.
To read more about Amplio Network: https://www.amplio.org/
Follow Gilbert Nkpeniyeng: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbert-nkpeniyeng-1648a017a/
Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard
Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier
Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard
Recording done at Fidelidade Creative Studio at Nova SBE
Thanks to Amplio Network Ghana team for sharing some of the audio sources used for the sound design of this episode.
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Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and peopleâs lives.
In this episode, we talked with Leslie Davol, co-founder and executive director of Street Lab, a nonprofit that creates and shares programs for public space across New York City, and with Hannah Berkin-Harper, Street Lab's design lead. We talked about the pop-ups they create to improve the urban environment, connect New Yorkers and create communities. They highlighted the value of developing quick and nimble ways to provide resources to residents and develop a street-level environment that can evolve while also testing ideas for longer term changes.
To read more about Street Lab: https://www.streetlab.org/
Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard
Co-conception: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier
Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard
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Tanya Bhandari is a communication designer from India who has been working in the social impact space for over a decade. Currently she is the Design Director at â YLabsâ in Kigali, Rwanda. She was previously Design Lead at â UNICEFâs Office of Innovationâ (New York), Design Fellow at â Center for Urban Pedagogyâ (New York), and Designer at â Teach for Indiaâ (Mumbai.)
In this episode, reflecting on the projects she has been involved, Tanya stressed the power of co-design, where young people lead the process and participate from beginning to end. Tanya talked about prototyping as a form of research and how to prototype in resource-constrained environments. As we discussed how her work involved complex collaborations, she stressed the importance of always having part of the team embedded in the local context. Last, Tanya suggested that design for social impact required designers to step back from a position of expertise, to become sense makers and facilitators.
To learn more about Tanya's work, check her website: https://tanyabhandari.in/about
Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanyabhndri/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Liz Gerber is a professor at Northwestern University, co-director of Northwesternâs Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design, and faculty founder of Design for America, a national award-winning network of interdisciplinary students who work together to solve problems they care about in their community. Liz works at the works at the intersection of design, social computing, and organizational behavior to understand the future of collaboration and in particular. for social impact. Gerber co-directs the Delta Lab whose mission is to create technology-based systems to enhance learning, collaboration, and performance. Gerber has received awards for her research and teaching from the National Science Foundation, MacArthur, Mozilla Foundations, Microsoft and Smithsonian.
Liz was the Fall 2023 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow Liz on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizgerber/ and Twitter: elizgerber
To learn more about Liz's work: lizgerber.com
To learn more about Design for America: designforamerica.com
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music: Guilhem Tamisier
Art work: Guilhem Tamisier
The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE
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Sara Camnasio is a multi-disciplinary designer and researcher focused on government (public services), science, and climate projects. Her workspans from integrating design mindsets into environmental and conservation projects, creating educational curricula to engage students on STEAM topics, to helping improve public and private services and products. After spending 5 years conducting Astrophysics research at the American Museum of Natural History and at telescopes around the world for 5 years, Sara decided to dive into design to apply design thinking methods to science and conservation projects. Sheâs been a NationalGeographic Explorer since 2015, and through this community, she has led and co-led several international projects focused on conservation and environmental education. Currently, she is helping grow Human-centered design and co-design practices at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in the US Federal Government. She also runs the Sonoma County Feminist Bird Club â a growing community of friendly bird nerds who care about the outdoors and social justice.
In this episode, Sara explains how she combines in her work service design with participatory approaches to help people engage more deeply and more consciously with the world around them. She stresses how design shapes all our interactions â with objects, technology, humans, and nature, and therefore has a role to play in addressing issues we are facing like climate change. We discussed how design can help translate complexity and identify and frame what problem to solve, and the role of the designer as a facilitator and storyteller. Sara emphasizes the need for designers to think of unintended consequences and be reflexive about their practice; design being in the end a deeply political practice.
To learn more about Sara's work, check her website: https://www.saracamnasio.com/
Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saracamnasio/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Isaac is the founder of Mideva Labs - a research, design and innovation consultancy studio based in Nairobi Kenya, and a co-founder of Idea Studio Africa - a community-powered learning, skills development and apprenticeship studio helping young professionals build meaningful career pathways in innovation andentrepreneurship. Isaac previously co-founded the Africa YES Program - a 6-month leadership and entrepreneurship accelerator program for young social entrepreneurs in Kenya, which has supported over 80 entrepreneurs to launch social ventures since 2019.
Isaac has over 8 years of experience working in the design, social innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem across Africa and supporting initiatives around the world, including working for openIDEO - IDEOâs open innovation platform that supported innovators across the globe to solve some of the biggest worldâs challenges.
Isaac has a passion for designing with and working with communities and young people to achieve impact and is interested in exploring ways to rethink learning and in investment in young people and their ideas for a better future.
Isaac was the Spring 2023 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow Isaac on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaacjumba/
Twitter: @Isaacjumba
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music: Guilhem Tamisier
Art work: Guilhem Tamisier
The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE
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Harmonie Coleman is a Senior Community Engagement Manager at IDEO.org. In this role, she collaborates closely with design teams, partners, and local community members to advance equitable practices in design research and community co-design methods across the organization. She specializes in designing transformative experiences, healing-centered facilitation, participatory design methods, and recruiting community members with lived experience. Her past experiences as a teacher and community organizer both deepen her expertise and ground her current work and interests. Harmonie has a Master of Education from Harvard University and a Bachelor in Psychology and Race and Difference Studies from Emory University.
In this episode, Harmonie shared her views on community and intentional relationship building, and stressed the need to move from transactive interactions to intentional relationship. She illustrated the value of intentional relationship building by sharing two projects she worked on with families and youth who have been impacted by the child welfare system. She discussed how the distinctions between participatory design, community design and co-design were not necessarily generative. Instead, she invites us to focus on the "how" and practice, rather than the labels. Last, we discussed adrienne maree brown's work and how the notion of emergent strategy informs Harmonie's work.
I asked Harmonie to share some recommended readings:
Thick, Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
How We Show Up, Mia Birdsong
Holding Change, adrienne maree brown
Abolishing the Cop in Your [Designer's] Head, Sarah Fathallah and A.D. Sean Lewis https://designmuseumfoundation.org/abolish-the-cop-inside-your-designers-head/Read Harmonie's essay "On Community": https://www.ideo.org/perspective/on-community-harmonie-coleman
Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harmonie-coleman-a42b25155/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Ezio Manzini is one of the world's leading and provocative thinkers in design for sustainability and social innovation â considered a major driver of sustainable changes. These two joint interests led him to start DESIS: an international network of schools of design specifically active in the field of design for social innovation and sustainability. Currently, Ezio is President of DESIS Network and Honorary Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. He has been guest professor in several design schools world-wide such as Elisava-Design School and Engineering (Barcelona), Tongji University (Shanghai), University of the Arts (London), CPUT (Cape town), and Parsons - The new School for Design (NYC). Ezio has written many books and papers on service design and social innovation. His most recent books are: 'Design, When Everybody Designs', 'Politics of the Everydayâ and lately 'Livable Proximityâ.
In this episode, Ezio invites us to reimagine the role of design in building a sustainable and resilient world. In particular, he talks about how our contemporary society has become a âcareless societyâ and how design can help create conditions that afford care and nurture relations. He highlights the complex relation between care and proximity and based on his most recent book, discusses the notion of livable proximity and how a city that cares look like. Finally, he discusses the notion of social innovation, and stresses that if there is value in emergent, bottom-up social innovation, we need to nurture them and that this requires a new type of social infrastructure.
To learn more about DESIS: https://www.desisnetwork.org/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Bon Ku is an emergency physician, professor and host of the Design Lab podcast. He is the Assistant Dean for Health and Design and leads the Medicine+Design initiatives at Thomas Jefferson University. As the Director of the Health Design Lab, he created the first design thinking program at a medical school. Bon is creating design-minded solutions to improve patient health. Bon co-wrote the book, Health Design Thinking, with Ellen Lupton and was a regular panelist on the primetime medical TV show Chasing the Cure with Ann Curry. In this episode, Bon talks about the role of design and prototyping in the development of products and services for better health care. He discusses medical education and design and explains how the Health Design Lab empowers future doctors to redesign healthcare services, physical spaces and medical devices. Bon stresses the need for more creativity in medical education and medicine. We also talk about collaboration and co-creation and how essential it is to design a better health system.
To learn more about Bon's work: https://linktr.ee/bonku
Listen to his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pt/podcast/design-lab-with-bon-ku/id1529983261
Follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drbonku/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music & Art Work: Guilhem Tamisier
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In this episode, our guest was Laetitia Wolff, a creative strategist, design curator, published author, and self-described cultural engineer and the former director of strategic initiatives at AIGA in NY. Laetitia lives, works and teaches in the South of France following 20+ years spent in New York. She consults and creates projects that generate new discourses, meaningful practices and experiences using design as a tool for social change, impact, and innovation. She brings design to cities, through research-action projects, curated programs, and citizen engagement initiatives. She teaches at Besign, The Sustainable Design School, design impact and partnership-based courses to imagine the creative strategies for tomorrowâs territories.
In our conversation, Laetitia shared her perspective about design as a tool for social change, impact and innovation and how her design work focused on cities understood as an intertwinement of spatial, social and relational dimensions. She stressed the importance of multi-disciplinary approaches and of multi-stakeholder engagement. Laetitia shared her passion for amplifying the voices of individuals and communities who are unheard. Last, all her projects illustrated the value of learning by doing.
To learn more about Laetitia's work: https://www.laetitiawolff.design/
Follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laetitia-wolff-31a6193/
Credits:
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music: Guilhem Tamisier
Art work: Guilhem Tamisier
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Karine Sarkissian is a founding partner at Tamar Capital (2016), a single-family office based between the Middle East, the UK, and the US. She oversees the FOâs Impact and Venture portfolio. Designer and Design Strategist by background, Karine has extensive experience in social innovation for urban and economic development initiatives within New York City and Internationally. Leveraging her expertise, she co-founded Le Studio as part of Tamar Capital to actively support portfolio companies and investors alike through design, impact measurement, and strategy development. Since inception 2 years ago, Le Studio has supported more than 50 aspiring entrepreneurs across 4 continents.
Karine also co-created and co-facilitated the Open IDEO NYC Chapter, served as a Design for America mentor to graduate students within New York University, as well as a Hult Prize accelerator mentor. She often freelances as a graphic designer and illustrator, and spends most of her time outside or in the ocean.
Karine was the Fall 2022 Social Innovator in Residence with the ERA Chair in Social Innovation and the DESIS Lab at NOVA SBE.
Follow Karine on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karinesarkissian/ and Twitter: @karinesark
Learn more about her work at Tamar Capital: https://tamar.capital/
and Le Studio https://lestudio.io/
Discover her portfolio: http://karinesarkissian.com
Conception, host and production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design & Post-production: Claudio Silva
Music: Guilhem Tamisier
Art work: Guilhem Tamisier
The Podcast was recorded and produced in the Fidelidade Creative Studio @ Nova SBE
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Tales of the Field is a podcast series which gives voice to social activists and social innovators who work in and with their communities to create social impact and sustainable change. They share with us their work in the field - where they tackle complex social issues and aim to create sustainable change and social impact. At its core, their work is human-centered, systemic and always informed by a deep understanding of the context and peopleâs lives.
In this episode, we talked with Tonya Gayle, Executive Director of Green City Force (GCF) and an advocate for economic justice for young people of color. She led GCFâs development team from July 2014 to September 2020 when she became GCF's Executive Director. She is a board member of The Corps Network focused on national service, and Environmental Advocates of NY focused on environmental justice. Prior to joining GCF, Tonya served in public-private partnerships at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) Career Program. Tonya is a member of The New York Womenâs Foundation Circle of Sisters for Social Change, a graduate of Wesleyan University, and a native Brooklynite. She is an associate producer of the 2006 documentary The Perfect Life featuring young adults from Harlem.
Co-conception and Voice: Melchior Tamisier-Fayard
Co-conception and Production: Anne-Laure Fayard
Sound design, Music and Post-production: Guilhem Tamisier
Artwork: Jyoti Tamisier-Fayard
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