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The Business Case for Costumes with Emily Ma, Food for Good @ Google
Description
What is the business case for costume weeks at work or school? Join Emily Ma, Head of Food for Good at Google, as she takes us through her design engineering journey and the curiosities that led her to interesting places. Her work on food and data started at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory (where she also worked on Glass, Loon and Waymo!). Now, Food for Good is core to Google, where Emily reimagines our food system in service of a more sustainable, equitable and healthy future.
Tune in to hear Emily's perspective on:
Career journey, from mechanical engineering to design and business
Staying curious, protecting your energy, and "expertise"
The business case for costumes
Google's Food for Good
The power of power of having a vision and bringing others along
Hope and policy making
Advice for young people in this world
Emily's shoutouts:
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Follow Emily!
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyjma/
Twitter: @emilyjma
Instagram: @emilyjma
Technical Difficulties is hosted by Liz Gerber and produced by Lauren Lin & Gilli Nieh. Special thanks to the Alumnae of Northwestern and Northwestern’s Center for HCI + Design.