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Inspiring Health at the Community Level - Esther Dyson, Executive Founder of Wellville

Inspiring Health at the Community Level - Esther Dyson, Executive Founder of Wellville

FromRaise the Line


Inspiring Health at the Community Level - Esther Dyson, Executive Founder of Wellville

FromRaise the Line

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Oct 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

“My superpower is asking questions, and that's pretty good training for just about anything,” says Raise the Line guest Esther Dyson. She has decades of experience as an advisor to and investor in companies in a wide range of sectors -- from education, to healthcare, to information technology. Her current focus is Welville, an organization she founded that’s running a 10 year project aimed at developing models to improve health in small communities. “We're basically a coaching organization. We're not giving them fish and we're not teaching them how to fish. We're helping them build their own fishing schools.” Tune in to this episode of Raise the Line to hear Dyson speak with Osmosis Co-Founder Shiv Gaglani about her fascinating career witnessing the birth of the high-tech era and her nonprofit's current proposal to improve the health literacy of underprivileged children in Muskegon, Michigan by getting them involved in measuring their own glucose. Their ultimate goal? To help communities become healthier and more equitable places, and inspire other communities to do the same. Listen in to find out why Dyson believes the inability to think long-term has caused so many of our problems, and why the “human infrastructure” investments being contemplated n Washington are so important.
Released:
Oct 19, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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