Designing Social and Environmental Impact

They met at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) when Nate was Sami’s star student in her Design for Social Entrepreneurship studio. Now, Nate is off building his Local401 project, which uses scrap materials to design socially responsible products, while Sami continues teaching Design for Social Entrepreneurship at RISD and is in the midst of piloting an eco-home redecorating show with inner-city teens.

Designing away the world’s most “inconvenient” social and environmental problems is something we are both passionate about, signaling a paradigm shift in America that will place creative design at center stage as our most untapped renewable resource.

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