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Sara Cantor is a creative leader and human-centered designer focused on equity, inclusion and social innovation. After seven years using human-centered design to create new markets for corporate clients, she co-founded Greater Good Studio in 2011 to apply design to pressing social sector challenges. Her team of "pissed-off optimists" has helped nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies build internal capacity for social innovation, create and prototype new programs, and sustain and scale their impact. Sara speaks regularly on designing for social impact and facilitates workshops worldwide. She holds a master's in design planning from IIT and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from Northwestern University.