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Taken by Storm: Why a Dancer Chose a Design Career

Transforming Worlds with Carola Verschoor
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Our careers are transformed when insight meets purpose. This is Erica Dorn's story of how hurricane Katrina led her to work towards social impact. 🔔 Subscribe:    / @carolaverschoor   👓 About Erica Dorn Erica Dorn is an Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at Oregon State University. She is the founder of Suburb Futures, a collaborative social design practice focused on building civic infrastructure and fostering equitable, thriving futures in peripheral places. Her current research examines relational design practices aimed at promoting depolarization and belonging in an age of plurality and extremes. She has held senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors, spanning community economic development, social impact finance, and business and leadership education. Erica earned her PhD in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon University, is on the Board of Directors for Third Millennium Alliance, a rainforest conservation  …...more
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Taken by Storm: Why a Dancer Chose a Design Career
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Our careers are transformed when insight meets purpose. This is Erica Dorn's story of how hurricane Katrina led her to work towards social impact. 🔔 Subscribe:    / @carolaverschoor   👓 About Erica Dorn Erica Dorn is an Assistant Professor of Design and Innovation at Oregon State University. She is the founder of Suburb Futures, a collaborative social design practice focused on building civic infrastructure and fostering equitable, thriving futures in peripheral places. Her current research examines relational design practices aimed at promoting depolarization and belonging in an age of plurality and extremes. She has held senior leadership roles in the public and private sectors, spanning community economic development, social impact finance, and business and leadership education. Erica earned her PhD in Transition Design from Carnegie Mellon University, is on the Board of Directors for Third Millennium Alliance, a rainforest conservation organization in Ecuador, and is a Senior Democracy Fellow with Humanity in Action. 🔗 Links 💡 Design and Innovation at Oregon State University https://business.oregonstate.edu/prog... 🌲 Suburb Futures and The Warm Cookies of the Revolution: https://warmcookiesoftherevolution.or... 📌 Follow us for more stories on #transformation and the pioneers who are Transforming Worlds. 🎬    / @carolaverschoor   📄 https://carolaverschoor.substack.com 📷   / iamcarolaverschoor   🌳 https://linktr.ee/carolaverschoor About TRANSFORMING WORLDS 🐛💫🦋 Transformation is happening everywhere around us. Join your host, Carola Verschoor, a transformation designer and author, as she sparks conversations with trailblazers and pioneers of all walks of life. Together, we explore the art of transformation, fueled by inspiration, creativity, and a shared vision for a brighter future. Transformation is unfolding. Each new episode brings you new stories of amazing and unique people who are bringing transformation into their worlds and insights as to how they do it.🌎

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Transforming Worlds with Carola Verschoor

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