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The Night Loo
The Night Loo To prevent attacks on refugee women and girls, Anna Meddaugh designed a toilet that can be used privately at night. A Pacific Northwest native, Anna Meddaugh started out in public health before deciding to work “upstream” on health equity issues by using the tools of design to improve lives. A course in…
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Lena Tall Faye
Lena Tall Faye Lena Tall Faye is the eldest of 8 siblings, and while she originally wished to attend University, instead took a job at a bank to help support her family. However, after witnessing waves of layoffs, she decided to start her own business, Delta SA. Her entrepreneurial spirit was awakened, and bit by…
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Organ-on-chip
Organ-on-chip Colon chips are especially important for the development of new oral drugs because we digest pills before they make their way to a targeted system. For example, a new Parkinson’s drug taken orally would first be studied with the colon chip to see how it passes through the digestive system before uptake by the…
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Meet Angela Garbes
As the author of “LIke a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy” and “Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change,” Garbes has written with absolute clarity about the importance of parenting and care in society.
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Meet Mercedes Synder
Mercedes Snyder is a community-based midwife and the owner of Something Beautiful Midwifery. She has also served as a doula and birth assistant, and she estimates she has supported more than 300 families.
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Meet Ari Robbins Green
If you watched a TLC reality show called My Pregnant Husband in 202, you may have seen Ari Robbins Greene, a Seattle-area trans man who shared his experience of being pregnant and giving birth. Fast-forward to today, and Ari and his wife Caitlyn are the parents of two children. (Each gave birth to a child.)…