Influence Board

Ana Pinto da Silva

Chief Executive Officer

Minka

$400

Requested Donation

Ana's Summary

Minka CEO and co-founder Ana Pinto da Silva drives transformational change at the intersection of housing, healthcare and technology. Minka provides a radical alternative to traditional senior housing, building intergenerational communities that seek to strengthen connections, improve health and increase wellbeing. As a designer, technologist, community leader and accomplished public speaker, Ana is dedicated to creating products that matter, defining new landscapes of opportunity for people world-wide. She has lead future-forward design innovation initiatives traversing healthcare, education, civics, shopping and productivity for Amazon, Microsoft, NBBJ and others. Her work explores the nexus of leading-edge scientific research, design thinking, business development and social change, underscoring the continued need to develop products and services that center under-served populations as both drivers and recipients of first-tier technology innovation. Ana is deeply committed to serving the creative community. She is the founder of the Seattle Pecha Kucha speaker series, one of the longest running PK city series in the world and is the founding chair of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's global Design Impact initiative. She currently serves on the board of directors for the Harvard Graduate School of Design Masters in Design Engineering program, the Harvard Graduate School of Design Alumni Council, Leadership Tomorrow and 4Culture. She was past board Vice-President for Design In Public, and has been an adviser to the Seattle Waterfront Design Oversight Committee. Ana received her B.A. in Architecture from U.C. Berkeley and her MDesS from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a graduate of Seattle's Leadership Tomorrow program serving as class valedictorian in 2009.

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