This is part 2 of one of our current projects, MamaMimicry, which aims to provide therapeutic relief to premature babies in neonatal intensive care units (or NICUs for short), through products that have been developed to mimic a baby’s mother, which provides various benefits like increasing oxygenation levels in their blood and a more normalized he…

We have been focusing our efforts over here at PDG to actually get behind peoples doing good projects and help make them a reality. By researching, strategizing, networking and marketing their projects. We are helping everyday people, just like you, really make an impact on society. Our current project in progress Is called MamaMimicry. Started by …

In this episode I tell you about my health story and how it relates to mental health and the challenges that exist. I'm also using part of my interview with Lian Zeitz who works for citiesRISE, the amazing organization transforming global mental health policy and practice. Prior to joining citiesRISE (see Ep. 16), Lian worked with therapeutic progr…

Kristen Anderson is a freshman at Stanford University. She founded Kitchen on a Mission at the age of 16. It started by her wanting to help homeless people in her hometown of Vancouver, but was unsure as to what she could do. She visited restaurants in her community, asking them for leftover food. After getting rejection after rejection she finally…

Lian Zeitz, program officer, at citiesRISE. He has been an active contributor to the philosophical underpinning of citiesRISE and leads international youth activities. citiesRISE is a global platform committed to transforming the state of mental health policy and practice in cities and beyond to meet the mental health needs of populations across th…

Nancy Lee Sánchez is the Executive Director for the Kaplan Educational Foundation, a 501(c)3 public charity, that seeks to eliminate barriers to higher education for overlooked and underserved students. Developing them into world leaders and advocates for their communities by providing a comprehensive array of financial and academic support, transf…