Today in the episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are excited to be talking with Emily McGarvey, Director of Sustainability for Room & Board. Emily McGarvey brings 20 years of experience spearheading social and environmental strategies with a focus on product, supply chain, operations, and branding. Leading sustainability initiatives for Room & Board and Room & Board Business Interiors, the brand’s commercial arm, she is strategically focused on bringing sustainability...

In today’s episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are excited to be talking with equity and inclusion advocate: Manpreet Dhillon! Manpreet is a certified Personal and Executive Coach, Human Resources Professional, and Internal Auditor who uses her skills and expertise to create strong organizational cultures and provide economic empowerment to equity-deserving groups - among which as Founder and CEO of Veza Global. Her experience in community development, knowledge transfer, project...

Today in the episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are excited to be talking with Nzinga Mboup! Nzinga Biegueng Mboup is a Dakar-based, Senegalese architect who co-founded WOROFILA a practice that specializes in bioclimatic architecture and construction using earth and biomaterials sourced locally. In addition to her architectural practice, Nzinga has worked as a researcher for the African Futures Institute and co-authored two research projects called Habiter Dakar and Dakarmorphose...

Today on the podcast, Michael Braun and Eldad Gothelf from Kasirer - a New York City based firm driven by strategists, problem solvers, and expert navigators of complicated systems, and complicated solutions. Kasirer builds coalitions and consensus to win support for their clients—across industries, interests, approvals, and all levels of government. Our first guest is Eldad Gothelf, Kasirer’s Senior Vice President of Real Estate. Eldad works with all of the firm’s real estate clients,...

Today in the episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are excited to be talking with design theorist, facilitator, and practitioner: Sloan Leo! Leo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FLOX Studio, a community design and strategy studio that supports mission-driven organizations to animate the practice of their values. Using facilitation, FLOX Studio engages innovative social impact leaders to collaboratively design their culture, strategy, and organizational development...

Today on the podcast, Joseph Heathcott grew up in the Industrial Midwest, and has worked as a dish washer, fry cook, roofer, carpenter, lumber yard grunt, and community organizer. He also has a background as a photographer and radio announcer and producer. These days he is the Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School, exploring cities within a global, comparative perspective. Much of Joseph’s work over the past decade has been to connect humanities and social sciences...

Our guest today on this podcast episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast is Jolyon White, the founder and Creative Director of 10 Days - the agency shaking up the ad industry. He is a former employee at Wieden+Kennedy, Mother, and Channel 4. Jolyon famously created the multi-award winning Paralympics campaign - 'Yes I can' for Channel 4 amongst lots of exciting work for Nike, Bumble, MoneySupermarket and Lurpak. Jolyon is also an award-winning film director, and now runs his own creative...

Today on What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we have the honor to speak with Dan Dickson! Dan Dickson is an urban planner and architect who is interested in how to solve intractable problems rooted in the built environment. He has spent much of his career working in architecture firms on planning and design work ranging in scale from the building to the region, exploring equity issues relating to transportation access, criminal justice, education, and housing affordability. Dan has also worked...

Today in our episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are happy to welcome Pilar Finuccio! Pilar (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). She was born to a big Cuban family in Miami, where her community design practice began at O, Miami Poetry Festival, designing projects imagined by people throughout Miami Dade County to be created every April during National Poetry month. She studied social design at the School of Visual Arts and previously worked at...

Today in the episode of What’s Wrong With: The Podcast, we are excited to be talking with Seth James about Artificial Intelligence. Seth has helped startups, non-profits, and enterprises design and deploy virtual assistants to help people make informed decisions. He started building his first bot on a trip to Okinawa in 2018. Since then, Seth has built conversational databases, multimodal brand ambassadors, customer support bots, and other virtual assistants. He's currently working with...

She founded Path Home (formerly Portland Homeless Family Solutions) at the age of 24. For the past 16 years she has served as its Executive Director, working to make shelter and permanent housing a reality for as many families as possible. As of 2023, Path Home remains one of the only Portland organizations focused exclusively on homeless families, with a staff of over 50, an annual budget of nearly $5 million, more than 3,021 families served, and with an track record of remarkable success...

Today on the podcast, we speak with David Brint, Janet Szlyk and Jack Schroeder, three individuals from different companies, who were together involved in the creation of the Foglia residences - affordable housing for people with vision impairment. ‍The developer of the residences is Brinshore Developer, of which David Brint is the Principal and Co-Founder. Besides his role at Brinshore Development, David also presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Foundation Fighting...

Luke Williams is a leading business thinker, speaker and author having lectured in 21 countries & addressed the World Innovation Forum & the United Nations General Assembly. He is Professor of Innovation & Design at NYU Stern School of Business and the founder of IdeaSkills™. Williams is the inventor of 30+ U.S. patents & has designed more than 100 products in industries ranging from transportation to finance, and healthcare to consumer electronics. His views are regularly...

Patrick MacLeamy is an American architect who spent 50 years at HOK, a leading architecture and engineering firm. Rising from Junior Designer to CEO, Patrick witnessed the company's growth from a single Midwestern office to 27 locations around the world. During his time at HOK from 1967 until 2017, Patrick led many significant projects, including the Moscone Center in San Francisco and King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia. Patrick has been heavily involved in efforts to...

Nina is an experienced leader in social innovation. She is a global leader in academic and application in design-thinking and integrated design approaches to address complex issues, and has a history of achievement delivering projects with change leaders, policy makers and innovators around the globe focused on the sustainable development goals. Nina holds a PhD in Management by Design, holds several Adjunct Associate professor roles with leading Australian academic institutions. In 2022...

Shamichael Hallman is currently a visiting fellow (Loeb Fellow) at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and a Teaching Fellow at the Center for Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania. As part of his fellowship work at Harvard, he is exploring how design and planning can make for socially inclusive cities and welcoming public spaces. From 2017 to 2022 he served as the Senior Library Manager of the historic Cossitt Library (Memphis Public Libraries). In this role he...

Jeff Speck was the Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007. Jeff presided over the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and created the Governors’ institute on Community Design. Prior to his federal appointment, Jeff spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at DPZ & Co., the principal firm behind the New Urbanism movement. Since 2007, he has led Speck & Associates, a private design consultancy serving mainly American cities. With Andres Duany...

Fatimah Aure is The Kelsey’s Director of Field Building & Capacity. With a communications degree from Northwestern University and a Public Policy Masters from UC Berkeley, managing meaningful nonprofit programming is her sweet spot. She leads the efforts to grow the field of leaders, advocates and champions of disability-forward housing solutions. She dreams of a day when affordable, accessible and inclusive housing is a given for any new developments. She is fueled by The Kelsey’s...

MARY ANNE OCAMPO & DENNIS PIEPRZ, PRINCIPAL URBAN DESIGNERS AT SASAKI ASSOCIATES ‍Today on the podcast, Mary Anne Ocampo and Dennis Pieprz from Sasaki. ‍Sasaki is an interdisciplinary architecture, planning, landscape, and design firm with offices in Boston, Denver, New York, and Shanghai and a leader in the design industry for 70 years. The firm is known for blending disciplines, engaging with clients and communities, drawing on history and context, and using data and emerging...

Bryan Alexander is an award–winning, internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of higher education’s future. He completed his English language and literature PhD at the University of Michigan in 1997, with a dissertation on doppelgangers in Romantic-era fiction and poetry. Then Bryan taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology studies at Centenary College of Louisiana. There he also pioneered...

Inbar Kishoni is an urban planner obsessed with improving how people can be a part of shaping the cities they live in. As the Community & Equity Program Manager on Lyft’s Citi Bike team, she works on increasing access to the Citi Bike system through community grants, adaptive programming, and the Reduced Fare Bike Share program. Prior to that, she spent 11.5 years at NYC DOT, first as a Project Manager in their Bicycle Program and ultimately serving as their first ever Director of Public...

Pascale Sablan is a Associate Principal at Adjaye Associates, and the 315th living African-American woman registered architect in the U.S. In 2021 Pascale received the AIA Whitney M. Young. Jr Award and ascended to the AIA College of Fellows. Pascale is the President of the National Organization of Minority Architects. She has been quoted in the New York Times and Forbes magazine regarding her efforts and was featured on Oprah's Future Rising platform as a Black trailblazer moving our world...

Inventor and visionary of green technologies, Adan Ramirez Sanchez has a background in Biotechnology and High-Technology Management. Adan co-founded Greenfluidics, a biotechnology company that accelerates the transition of sustainable cities by transforming buildings into lungs for the city. He has been named MIT Inventor of the Year, Innovator Under 25 in Germany and India, and Young Leader of the Americas in the United States. He is a global representative of SDG 13 in +150 countries in...

Simon Hauger is an engineer turned high school math and science teacher with 25+ years of experience in urban education. Simon developed a passion for experiential, problem-based learning early in his career. He started the West Philly Hybrid X Team where his students designed and built award winning hybrid and electric powered vehicles. In 2010 and again 2014, Simon and his students were honored by President Obama at the White House. In 2012, Simon and a few of his colleagues launched the...