Technical Difficulties
Technical Difficulties
Liz Gerber
The Business Case for Costumes with Emily Ma, Food for Good @ Google
40 minutes Posted Apr 14, 2023 at 1:14 am.
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What is the business case for costume weeks at work or school? Join Emily Ma, Head of Food for Good at Google, as she takes us through her design engineering journey and the curiosities that led her to interesting places. Her work on food and data started at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory (where she also worked on Glass, Loon and Waymo!). Now, Food for Good is core to Google, where Emily reimagines our food system in service of a more sustainable, equitable and healthy future.

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Tune in to hear Emily's perspective on:

  • Career journey, from mechanical engineering to design and business

  • Staying curious, protecting your energy, and "expertise"

  • The business case for costumes

  • Google's Food for Good

  • The power of power of having a vision and bringing others along

  • Hope and policy making

  • Advice for young people in this world

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Emily's shoutouts:

  • The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Follow Emily!

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyjma/

Twitter: @emilyjma

Instagram: @emilyjma

Technical Difficulties is hosted by Liz Gerber and produced by Lauren Lin & Gilli Nieh. Special thanks to the Alumnae of Northwestern and Northwestern’s Center for HCI + Design.