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Join Chelina Odbert to learn how she built an award-winning design practice that advances racial, environmental, and economic justice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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What does it mean to hold your values close while being an innovator and entrepreneur? Are ethical, successful businesses actually real? Join Chelina Odbert, CEO and Founding Principal of Kounkuey Design Initiative, for an interactive conversation on how she built an award-winning design practice that advances racial, environmental, and economic justice. Refreshments provided.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"Chelina Odbert is the CEO and Founding Principal of Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI). She has built an award-winning practice that brings good design to places where it is not often found, and that connects localized design interventions to large-scale policy change.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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