Social Innovation, Service Design, Branding
SI Fellows x Haiti Goat Project
2018-2020
SOME CONTEXT:The Social Innovation Fellowship is a year-long, team-based learning experience focused on exploring issues of ethics and sustainability within the social sector and entrepreneurship. Students partner with local organizations to work on real-world social impact ventures.
I was a fellow from 2018-2019 and returned to the program for a second year as a senior fellow from 2019-2020. Both years, I partnered with the Haiti Goat Project, a Raleigh-based nonprofit dedicated to alleviating child hunger in Haiti.
PROJECT GOALS:Identify + scope problems within the venture partner’s organization and align potential work with social impact outcomes
Meet + collaborate with project stakeholders to conduct research and develop + implement human-centered design solutions.
The 2020 Haiti Goat team working on a design thinking exercise to identify scalable projects within the organization’s architecture.
‘18-’19 TEAM: ANIRUDH AKULA, JORDAN BOWMAN, nIMET DEGIMENCIOGLU, PAIGE SWANSON + CHAR FARIN (FOUNDER OF HAITI GOAT PROJECT)'19-'20 TEAM: LEAH FLANDERS, VICTORIA FUDA, GRACE HERNDON, YASHMITHA LENIN, BRIAN SPEIGHT (MENTOR) + CHAR FARINGrappling with Complexity
The Haiti Goat Project, like most social impact groups, has a complex organizational structure embedded within aspirational goals, competing interests, and real-world limitations. This is where my team began: diving into learning and understanding the needs of all our overlapping stakeholder groups across two countries and drastically different cultures.
