Mariana Prieto is a social impact designer whose work has been a catalyst for positive change across the developing world. A 2012 Product Design graduate from ArtCenter, she has, in a very short period of time, built a remarkable career addressing the needs of underserved populations. Through her work with IDEO.org and as design innovation lead for the International Rescue Committee, she led teams working on a range of challenges, from the Ebola crisis in West Africa to refugee resettlement in the United States.
Currently, Mariana is a TED resident. She is also deep in the development of Design for Wildlife, a collective she recently founded with a mission to support wildlife conservation. As she makes clear in her interview with Change Lab, her interest in this new enterprise concentrates (intriguingly) on those conservation issues that emerge out of the specific relationship between animals and human beings.
Over the course of this spirited conversation, she explores the origins of her twin passions for animals and design, her work on an alliance between once-endangered crocodiles and their human neighbors, and her ambitious ideas for the next phase of her creative journey, forged through an impromptu design process at a TED conference in Tanzania.
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