Diana Enriquez

Artist, Change Agent, Idea generator, Project manager, Social entrepreneur

I spend my time thinking about the last mile between technology and human talent. I want to design better tools for human-machine partnerships. I am a strategist for Redstone Strategy Group, where I support product design and strategy for foundations like the Gates Foundation and Houston Endowment. We tackle important social problems in education, the environment, technology for good, and health. I am in the final stage of my PhD at Princeton in Sociology and Human-Computer Interaction. My academic writing is about the design challenges in automation. My writing has received attention on MSNBC's Tech chat, the Guardian, US News, and other channels. I also love and used to study informal economies. I spoke at TEDGlobal 2014 in the TEDUniversity session and TEDxMunich 2014 about my research and field work in Mexico, India, and Colombia. I love bringing my different worlds together, tea, writing, designing surveys, playing with my datasets, black market trade routes, and Kandinsky.

Designing tools for human-machine partnerships, not replacement! Voting, Tech for good, Informal Economies, Survey Design, Maps, Community Organizing

I study informal economies because I love seeing the ways that communities come together to identify local needs and possible solutions. Especially in places that are traditionally "off-the-radar" of the government or predominant cultural voices. I want to build communities of change agents who spend more time listening than they do talking. Perhaps not the most revolutionary concept, but an important and often undervalued one.

AI's last mile problem, Data Collection & Management, human computer interaction, Informal Economies, Sociology / Anthropology

I'm the founder and curator of TEDxYale and an active member of the TEDx community. I now work for TED's Content Team as the Content Researcher. This is coverage from my first TED@250, while I was an intern: http://blog.ted.com/2013/10/02/have-we-made-any-progress-since-2005-bjorn-lomborg-updates-his-classic-ted-talk-in-a-new-talk-at-ted-hq/

When I first moved to New York, I read everything I could find on the history of organized crime in the city and built a map of organized crime in NYC. this map has since turned into an 'Eccentric Guide to NYC.' I love mapping quirky histories. More about the project: http://denrsch.com/2015/12/making-an-eccentric-guide-to-new-york/