Dance for All Bodies
Dance has been shown to be very impactful on individuals and the community at the emotional, cognitive and physical level. However, there aren’t many inclusive dance classes for people with limb differences (PWLD). Dance for All Bodies (DfAB) addresses this gap through organizing monthly adaptive (interpretive, adapted to their own physical abilities) dance classes for … Continue reading “Dance for All Bodies”
- Team Members: Yagmur Halezeroglu, Tess Hanson School: UC Berkeley
- Art & Social Change
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
Kaloum Bankhi (Home of Kaloum): A Migration of Architecture
Kaloum Bankhi is “process-focused” and not “product focused”. The mission is to ensure every resident in Kaloum, Guinea lives in a durable home, and the approach is multidisciplinary in establishing a self-sustaining local supply chain. In order to realize this goal, the project takes a multi-faceted approach, innovating the physical design, the financial mechanism, and … Continue reading “Kaloum Bankhi (Home of Kaloum): A Migration of Architecture”
- Team Members: Matt Turlock, Carmen Durrer, Matt Fairris, Aboubacar Komara
- Art & Social Change
- UC Berkeley
- 2019
Helix
The healthcare field requires people who can navigate cultural barriers to communicate with and comfort patients. However, the current underrepresentation of minorities among health professionals is detrimental to the quality of patient care in the healthcare system. Helix is a non-profit organization working to diversify the healthcare workforce by facilitating direct exposure to health professions … Continue reading “Helix”
- Team Members: Nolan Pokpongkiat, Jeffrey Li, Kaveh Boostanpour, Neha Dubey, Caitlyn Enriquez
- Workforce Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Our Campus Kitchen
At UC Berkeley, student food insecurity is rampant while food waste is pervasive. Between expensive meals eating out and emergency provision at the Food Pantry, thousands of students are left without a consistent, affordable food option while Cal Dining and the campus gardens are flush with unused food that’s unable to be reliably processed and … Continue reading “Our Campus Kitchen”
- Team Members: Naomi Primero, Lucinda Laurence, Ibrahim Ramoul, Sara Tsai
- Food and Agriculture
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Husk-to-Home
Husk-to-Home siding is a fiber-plastic composite (FPC) material comprised of recycled high-density polyethylene plastic (HDPE) and rice husk. HDPE is a low cost, recyclable, and formaldehyde-free material while the rice husk is used because of its natural resistance to moisture and termites. To ensure that the material is resistant to the elements, Husk-to-Home has conducted … Continue reading “Husk-to-Home”
- Team Members: Kayla Cervera, Michael Pfaff, Barbara Aguirre, Riya Sanghvi, Daniel Murphy-Gonzalez, Marissa Hebert
- Scaling Up
- UC Riverside
- 2018
ElectroSan – Reimagining Waste for Kenya
Globally, 1 in 3 people still do not have access to a toilet, causing over 3.6 million water related, preventable deaths each year. In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of people without access to safely managed sanitation continues to grow. ElectroSan is reimagining the global sanitation problem as an opportunity. If disposal and treatment of … Continue reading “ElectroSan – Reimagining Waste for Kenya”
- Team Members: Luis Anaya, Hannah Greenwald, John Law, Maggie Fried
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2018
Early Preeclampsia Detection Strip
In most LMICs, the average woman attends one prenatal care visit when she first realizes she is pregnant and does not return to the health care facility until it is time for her to give birth or after she experiences severe health outcomes. Preeclampsia is the second leading cause of maternal mortality; accounting for the … Continue reading “Early Preeclampsia Detection Strip”
- Team Members: Brian Matovu, Denali Dahl, Zoe Sekyonda, Elizabeth Ndichu
- Scaling Up
- Makerere University
- 2018
Special Education Professional Enrichment Training
Witnessing the long-standing and urgent social need for accessible and affordable professional training in special and inclusive education in Mainland China, the Special Education Professional Enrichment Training (SEPET) Team will establish a learning channel for special education professionals through China’s most popular mobile social application “WeChat.” This channel can hold mobile distance training courses and … Continue reading “Special Education Professional Enrichment Training”
- Team Members: Juan Chen, Jason Wu
- Education & Literacy, Workforce Development
- UC Riverside
- 2018
LEAD
Across Burkina Faso and Africa, the inadequacy of skills in the workplace greatly contributes to the non-utilization of the continent’s human potential. This issue, rooted in the inadequacy of the education students receive in schools, explains their low employability and lack of skills to innovate. LEAD emerges in this context with a mission to … Continue reading “LEAD”
- Team Members: Rassidatou Konate, Seydou Noba
- Workforce Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2018