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The Digital Riser Series | Creating Agency and Social Impact with Human Centered Thinking



About this event


The Digital Riser Series aims to be the cornerstone of digital thought leadership and is visually presented to reach and represent leading women and men who navigate digital strategy and tech. Join with Host Ajia Allen, of Digalyne, Harvard MBA, Engineer & Community Change Maker, Rajan Patel, Co-Founder of Dent Education to gain a first perspective of how a Baltimore-based leader used design thinking principles to drive real-world social impact.

About the Special Guest:

Rajan is an avid maker who believes we can build a better world. He co-invented the Embrace incubator, a product of empathy-driven design that has impacted and saved the lives of more than 300,000 babies across the developing world.


Today, Rajan is passionate about empowering the makers and problem solvers of tomorrow. He trained at Stanford to become a teacher of design thinking and has organized and led programs of his own across ten countries. Rajan holds a BS in Biomechanical Engineering from Stanford, an MBA from Stanford, and an MPA from Harvard.

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