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advertisement advertisement advertisement Yemi Adewunmi is co-founder and chief product officer at Civic Eagle. She spoke to Doreen Lorenzo for Designing Women , a series of interviews with brilliant women in the design industry. advertisement advertisement Doreen Lorenzo: How did you first get interested in design? Yemi Adewunmi: I actually didn’t realize I was interested in design until my mid-20s. When I was younger I was really into problem-solving, which I now recognize as the foundation of design-thinking. I originally aspired to become a lawyer and I went to college for political science with a prelaw focus. During college, I realized I didn’t necessarily want to be a lawyer, but I was really interested in policy, so I started my career as a policy researcher and analyst for the New York State Legislature, and then pursued a master’s in public administration. DL: What inspired you to enter the product design … [Read more...] about This app is helping Sierra Club, Fair Fight, and America Votes influence public policy

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advertisement advertisement advertisement Rolling out a vaccine to stop the spread of a global pandemic doesn’t come cheap. Billions of dollars have been spent developing drugs and putting in place a program to get those drugs into people’s arms. advertisement advertisement But amid an uneven distribution of vaccines —with poorer countries lagging far behind richer nations—another concern presents itself: the cost of not vaccinating everyone. My colleagues and I sought to find out what the total hit to the global economy of uneven vaccination distribution might be. To do so, we analyzed 35 industries—such as services and manufacturing—in 65 countries and examined how they were all linked economically in 2019, before the pandemic. For example, the construction sector in the U.S. relies on steel imported from Brazil , American auto manufacturers need glass and tires that come from countries in Asia , and so forth. … [Read more...] about The $4 trillion economic cost of not vaccinating the entire world