SOPHIE BECKER

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Hey, I’m Sophie – a designer, researcher, strategist, and artist. I hold a BFA in Industrial Design and Psychology from the Rochester Institute of Technology. 

I focus on design research, community engagement, and piloting interventions. I'm driven to address system-level problems through a design-lens, particularly environmental and social issues such as urban design, housing, and homelessness.  

I am based in Denver, CO where you can find me enjoying the mountains and sunshine.
 

    Atlanta Community Needs
    Child Care Matters
    Home Here
    Immersive Innovation Labs
    Jane Fonda
    Alpyn Beauty
    Vignelli Medal
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    FEATURED: Innovation Immersion Labs: A Novel Approach to Solving Public Health Challenges

    In order to effectively meet the demands of an rapidly evolving world, there is a need for innovative approaches for quickly developing solutions to public health challenges. We define innovation as any actionable progress toward a solution and rely on the guiding principles that comprise our understanding of innovation – follow-through, iterative contextual learning, flexibility, and adaptation. Guided by these principles, our team of multi-disciplinary experts have developed the Innovation Immersion Lab, an applied learning based accelerated program guided by a six-step approach. In a recent iteration of an ILL, mid-career public health professionals and public health graduate students worked collaboratively to innovate a solution for a public health challenge. This program exhibited great success with significant increases in innovation knowledge and anecdotal successes across program participants. The IIL approach holds great promise in engaging public health change makers. The complexity of public health challenges illustrates the necessity of innovative, iterative, and flexible approaches such as the ILL to seeking solutions in this field.

    Full Piece: Berra, L., Becker, S., Kennedy, M. (2022) Innovation Immersion Labs: A Novel Approach to Solving Public Health Challenges. HPHR


    All Writings: 
    Immersive Innovation Labs
    Public Health+ Blogs 
    Public Health Infographics