EMILY HUNT TURNER

I believe that our greatest social challenges persist because we have poorly designed the institutions meant to solve them. The way we design reveals what—and who—we give a damn about. Design, in its most profound form, is not cosmetic. It's consequential. Design determines what's possible.

Cities. Sectors. Software. Products. Policies. Algorithms. None of these things just fell into existence. Each of them were designed by someone, somewhere.

How has shaped my path; my philosophy?

I spent most of my twenties trying to understand the forces that are causing so much pain —particularly forces perpetuating housing discrimination and mass incarceration. When I turned thirty, I stopped asking only how to respond to broken systems and began asking how those systems might be redesigned. Since, I have had the honor of creating, and co-creating, dynamic ideas that redesign systems that fracture our social contract with one another. This has become my life's work: to design (or redesign) institutions worthy of the people they exist to serve.