Ellen McGirt

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S7E7: Daniella Zalcman

Daniella Zalcman is a documentary photographer and the founder of Women Photograph.

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S7E09: Mark Bloomfield + Shaun Borstrock

Mark Bloomfield is a jewelry designer and the founder of Electrobloom. Shaun Borstrock is associate dean for business and innovation at the University of Hertfordshire.

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S9E3: Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is an artist, activist, and founder of the Rolling Jubilee and the Debt Collective. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions.

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S9E12: Jessica Helfand + Ellen McGirt

Highlights of Season 9, and new hosts Dana Arnett and Kevin Bethune.

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Wemimo Abbey + Samir Goel

A fintech firm with an innovative new business model serving previously invisible customers once facing homelessness

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Deanna Van Buren

Eliminating mass incarceration through architecture and design.

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Judy Samuelson

Bringing together diverse players in business, science, government, design, and the arts to tackle the most urgent problems facing the planet.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

While working on the greatest design question of all, the particle physicist has become a powerful force for full diversity in science, academia, and society.

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Lata Reddy

The former civil rights attorney is working to bridge the racial wealth gap with initiatives created with and for Black and brown communities harmed by historically racist banking practices.