The holidays are a time of year for giving back and lending a hand to help those in your community. To honor this, this week on the Gensler Design Exchange podcast, we’re celebrating issue advocacy through the power of design. On this episode, Elaine Asal, design strategist in our Gensler Baltimore office, talks with Ryan Cavanaugh (design manager, Gensler Atlanta), Michael Adkins (consulting strategist, Gensler D.C.), Meredith Baber (marketing manager, Gensler D.C.), and Christian Fortuno (technical designer, Gensler Miami) about their recent collaboration with Mera Kitchen Collective, a community-driven, food-based cooperative focused on the empowerment of refugee and immigrant women.
As a central part of Gensler’s guiding mission to build a better tomorrow, the company launched Emerge: an internal program to develop our future leaders’ skills at forging new relationships and managing real-life projects. In 2018, the Southeast Emerge program focused on advocacy, digital experience design, robotics, and storytelling, exploring some of the most compelling issues that our firm and our clients are facing today.
