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More inclusive, equitable futures are grounded in how we design for justice and the human condition. Katie Swenson is a Senior Principal of international non-profit MASS Design Group, and she has spent her career building social equity and advocating environmental sustainability. At the heart of her work is a thread of collective optimism, a knack for bringing people together to create healthier communities that promote human dignity and joy.
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As a nationally recognized design leader, researcher, writer, and educator, Katie leads by example. Before joining MASS in early 2020, Swenson was vice president of Design & Sustainability at Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit organization that invests in community development, as well as an Enterprise Rose Fellow and Loeb Fellow. In addition, she founded the Charlottesville Community Design Center to bring together designers and community planners. In an interview with ArchDaily, Katie explores h
is huge. so i sat down and i sat at my computer. i wrote an e-mail to christy turlington burns. i didn t know what to do, you know. her response, by the next day, was you need a lab. she said, okay, every mother counts. we ll finance it. christy turlington burns and her non-profit, every mother counts, along with an international community of supporters, teamed up to fund the memorial lab. we have a full lab now. something we did not have in 2011. an on site facility at robin s clinic. now, robin and her team can get test results quickly and give mothers with hiv medication to reduce the risk of infecting their babies. you re the one that kept me up all night, yes. i think for me, knowing that we have friends out there that will do anything for us when we re in need, and since we ve had our lab, we recently have nine
so excited. that visit was the beginning of a lasting relationship. in 2012, robin delivered a baby whose mother was hiv positive. an emergency resuscitation, robin was exposed to the hiv virus. here in bali, the hiv problem is huge. so i sat down and i sat at my computer. i wrote an e-mail to christy turlington burns. i didn t know what to do, you know. her response, by the next day, was you need a lab. she said, okay, every mother counts. we ll finance it. christy turlington burns and her non-profit, every mother counts, along with an international community of supporters, teamed up to fund the memorial lab. we have a full lab now. something we did not have in 2011. an on site facility at robin s clinic. now, robin and her team can get test results quickly and give mothers with hiv medication to reduce the risk of infecting