EP 24: Designing for Global Health | Michael Ngigi

Michael Ngigi is the co-studio Lead of ThinkPlace Kenya where he
leads a team of designers drawn from over 8 different countries.
He’s passionate about Africa and unlocking the potential of the
continent through design thinking. Michael has traveled across
Africa understanding the different cultures and connecting people
with solutions to their challenges. Early in his career he
acknowledged the power of supporting people to identify their own
challenges and the magic of facilitating the process of solving
these challenges on their own. Michael is a board member of Design
for Health, a global initiative led by the United States Agency for
International Development and the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and sits on the Technical Advisory Group of Living Labs,
an initiative by PATH. Michael is also currently studying at the
Harvard Business School Program for Leadership Development. Bon and
Michael talk about his incredible journey from living on the
streets of Nairobi to becoming a designer, incorporating design in
public health projects and throwing our biases out the window.