What Do You(th) Think? episode 2: Finding your feet as a new human-centred designer

November 16, 2021

Rachael Wanjugu Gichuiri is currently a Fellow at IDEO.org’s, Billion Girls CoLab, where she is learning about Human-Centred Design (HCD) and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health(ASRH). She is also a masters student at Daystar University, Nairobi where she is studying Diplomacy, Development and International Security. Her goal is to understand the world through other people’s points of view and help eradicate personal biases. She loves meeting people and her vision is to be part of a change driven society for a better world.

In this conversation Rachael speaks about her experience as a new human-centred designer, how to initiate conversations around ASRH and how collaboration between Community-Based Organisations and Human-Centred Designers is integral to unpacking ASRH solutions to the end user.

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