Mara Mintzer
Founder, Global School | Empowering Youth Through Design-Thinking
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Mara Mintzer is the founder of Global School, a nonprofit that empowers youth to tackle real-world problems through design-thinking. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, and Forbes.
Mintzer previously served as the Head of Youth Programs at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, where she developed educational initiatives to spark students' creativity and problem-solving skills. Her TED talk has been viewed over 1 million times, inspiring audiences worldwide with strategies for cultivating the next generation of innovators.
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How kids can help design cities
Adults tend to think of kids as "future citizens" -- their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn't they have a say in what the world they'll inherit will look like? Urban planner Mara Mintzer shares what happened when she and her team asked kids to help design a park in Boulder, Colorado -- and how it revealed an important blind spot in how we construct the built environment. "If we aren't including children in our planning, who else aren't we including?" Mintzer asks.
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