Design for Good + Ethics + Social Impact with Sara Cantor — DT101 E100

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sara Cantor is a co-founder and the executive director of Greater Good Studio, where she and her team think of themselves as pissed-off optimists. We talk about design for good, ethics in design practice, and creating social impact.</span></p> <p><strong>Listen to learn about:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Human-centered design</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Greater Good Studio’s project “gut check”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The power designers wield</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Better ways of co-designing with clients</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Community-based design work</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Our Guest</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sara Cantor is a creative leader and human-centered designer focused on equity, inclusion and social innovation. After seven years using human-centered design to create new markets for corporate clients, she co-founded Greater Good Studio in 2011 to apply the process and principles of design to the more pressing challenges of the social sector. Her team of “pissed-off optimists" has helped nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies to build internal capacity for social innovation, create and prototype new programs and services, and sustain and scale their impact.</span></p> <p><strong>Show Highlights</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:06] Sara’s journey into design, and the influence of Tom Hanks’ movie,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Big</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[01:45] Studying engineering at college.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[02:34] Finding her true pass