Designing Tomorrow: Creative Strategies for Social Impact
Designing Tomorrow explores a new playbook for modern social impact leaders and brands to reach their true impact potential.
Why do some social impact brands thrive, while so many others fail to get traction, build support for their cause, and make meaningful progress? Imagine your impact with truly sustainable revenue and resources. With deeper community engagement and relationships. With more influence in your social impact category.
Hosted by Eric Ressler, Founder & Creative Director of Cosmic, with co-host Jonathan Hicken, Executive Director of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, each episode dives into the strategies, mindsets, and behaviors top social impact brands use to play and win in the attention economy. Go beyond high-level concepts to specific tools and tactics you can use today.
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Designing Tomorrow: Creative Strategies for Social Impact
AI Doesn't Know What Empathy Looks Like
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Technology promised to close the digital divide, but too often the people building it don't reflect the communities affected by it. Tina-Marie Gulley, former CEO of Ada Developers Academy, sits down with Eric to talk about what it takes to build a more intentional, equitable tech industry, from embedding AI into nonprofit curriculum to running hackathons that solve real problems for community organizations.
Episode Highlights:
[00:01:00] From corporate marketing to nonprofit CEO: how a computer science competition revealed tech's inclusion problem
[00:02:00] Why technology hasn't fulfilled its promise of closing the digital divide
[00:05:30] Using vibe coding and hackathons to build real solutions for nonprofits
[00:07:30] Cutting through the AI hype cycle: grounding innovation in mission
[00:10:00] Why AI should never replace your therapist
[00:17:00] Why billionaires' kids aren't using AI in school the way everyone else's are
[00:21:00] Reframing DEI in a hostile political climate without compromising on impact
[00:23:30] Keeping funder relationships alive after the checks stop
Notable Quotes:
[00:11:10]: "AI only knows how we describe empathy, but it doesn't know what empathy looks like in practice." Tina-Marie Gulley
[00:17:00]: "A big part of investing in AI is investing in humanity." Tina-Marie Gulley
Resources & Links:
- Ada Developers Academy — https://adadevelopersacademy.org
- AI2 Incubator — https://www.ai2incubator.com
Hosted by Eric Ressler, Founder & Creative Director of Cosmic, with co-host Jonathan Hicken, Executive Director of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center. New episodes every Tuesday.
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