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Cindi Leive

A feminist media collective dishes up gender and worker equity at scale.

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Alison Mears + Jonsara Ruth

Giving architects and designers the tools they need to remove the toxic chemicals in affordable housing and beyond.

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Mariana Matus, PhD + Newsha Ghaeli

An unusual collaboration yields a new tool to detect public health threats and redesign cities in a world defined anew by the pandemic.

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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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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.

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New Red Order

A public secret society of Indigenous artists and filmmakers using art, humor, and provocation to respond to settler violence and recruit non-Native accomplices to the cause of returning Indigenous lands.

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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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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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Deanna Van Buren

Eliminating mass incarceration through architecture and design.