In this episode I speak with Aki Carpenter who is RAA’s global Vice President and Chief Creative Officer. We talk about what it means to provide vision and creative direction on design projects, what it was like opening over ten award-winning museums and cultural institutions worldwide, her work on the upcoming Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, and her passion for working with issues- and mission-based institutions. We also talk about her passion project, Ripple Effect, a New Orleans based environmental education start-up dedicated to K-12 education about socio-ecological issues of climate change, and what it’s been like for her as a female leader in the design field.