Welcome to The Boss Ladies Podcast, where co-hosts Manasi and Sualeha crowdsource knowledge by providing a platform for impact-oriented women to share their authentic experiences. From developing low-cost prosthetics to producing Oscar Award-winning documentaries, we showcase the insights of women who prove why the future really is female.
Ep. 67 - Leveraging Data & Tech to Revolutionize Campaigns and Building a Diverse Talent Pipeline in Progressive Politics with Mare Ahmed, Operations Director at Bluebonnet Data
In our latest episode, we sit down with Mare Ahmed, the Operations Director at Bluebonnet Data, a non-profit focused on leveraging data and technology to support progressive political campaigns and organizations. Mare discusses her initial exposure to and fascination with political science and her previous experience as the Special Projects Director at the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
We then highlight the origins of Bluebonnet Data as a student-led mission and how the Bluebonnet Fellowship bridges the gap between young-tech driven people with the desire to make a meaningful impact and the need for data support on campaigns. Mare dives into how during the 12 week fellowship, fellows are matched with projects which address pain points on political campaigns such as voter targeting, district analysis, donor research and field tool set-up by developing projects such as Generating Voter Turnout Scores from Scratch and Calculating a Win Number after Redistricting.
We discuss how the Bluebonnet Fellowship builds a diverse talent pipeline in progressive politics and how Bluebonnet Data showcases its fellows’ career journeys into the political tech space through its newsletter series, Bluebonnets in the (Progressive) Field. We close the episode by discussing the economic impact of Bluebonnet Data’s support in the political landscape along with the case study of Ohio Voice's campaign to protect reproductive rights.
Learn More:
https://www.bluebonnetdata.org/ (https://www.bluebonnetdata.org/)
https://www.bluebonnetdata.org/blog (https://www.bluebonnetdata.org/blog)
20 Sept 2024
Ep. 66: The Psychological Significance of Built Environments, Designing Global Museum Exhibitions, & Climate-Focused Material Innovations with Elizabeth Bridges
In this episode, Manasi and Sualeha sit down with Elizabeth Bridges, a designer currently leading Brand and Creative Strategy at Brimstone, a startup creating carbon-negative cement for cities, and a visiting professor at the Pratt Institute School of Design, where she has developed and adapted courses focused on impact and sustainability. Most recently, Elizabeth has served as the Co-Founder of OurCarbon, the Director of Design at the Bioforcetech Corporation, and the Co-Founder & Creative Director of Sum Studio.
We open the episode by discussing Elizabeth’s graduate research at the Pratt Institute, focused on the psychological significance of the built environment for the survivors of the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War in the 1990s, where she expands on the relationship between intergenerational trauma, social conflict, and the role of symbolic spaces. We then dive deeper into Elizabeth’s work as a 3D designer at Ralph Appelbaum Associates—one of the most prominent museum exhibition design firms in the world—and the value of experiential design as a form of education.
We then transition to Elizabeth’s shift to working on climate-centric projects, driven by prior experiential design projects and a visit to NASA headquarters, where she shares more about materials science and design in exhibitions, such as “Food and Water”, as well as in a materials science in a climate context. Elizabeth shares more about her work at Bioforcetech, a machine development company that turns the billions of food and yard waste managed annually into physically sequestered carbon without external energy. We also discuss Elizabeth’s work at OurCarbon, a carbon-negative material brand working to replace fossil-derived substances, with a focus on a carbon-negative concrete additive and black pigment.
We wrap up the episode by discussing Elizabeth’s experience developing courses at the Pratt Institute and her current work at Brimstone—which recently received a $189 million federal investment from the DOE—where she expands on concrete as a high-stakes industry; how the target audience of a cement company remains investors, policymakers, and taxpayers; and how Brimstone is designing an easily deployable process to be integrated with a wide range of energy sources globally.
Elizabeth’s Website: https://www.elizabethcbridges.com/ (https://www.elizabethcbridges.com/)
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Ep. 31: What Reproductive Longevity Will Unlock For Human Aging with Dr. Jennifer Garrison, Co-Founder & Director of the Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality
Published 5 Nov 2022 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Or, you know, there certainly was no public dialogue about this. And that's, you know, that is changing, I think. that's something that's really positive in the last few years is that these taboo subjects, these systemic biases have been changing and there's a very loud conversation that's happening right now and I think it's wonderful. So one thing is just for women your age to to get educated. Like, you know, I learned all of these things about my body and about my ovaries. I learned these things five, six years ago when I started working in this space. Many women don't find out, don't know any of this information until they go to use their ovaries and find out they're not working. […]
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