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Show Notes: 

• Breakthrough Collaborative (3:10) 
• Education as a vehicle for exploring the edges of social justice (6:00) 
• Passion to give people what they need to be successful (8:20) 
• Teach for America (10:00) 
• Qualities of a good mentor: patience, clarity, guide through learning moments (12:10) 
• Reasons for loving learning (13:20) 
• How Rachel sustains her energy (14:50) 
• How to decide what to say no to (17:20) 
  • Leave yourself room to discover 
• IDEO (18:15) 
• IDEO CEO Sandy Speicher and Disequilibrium (23:15) 
  • Constructivist theory of learning
• Question your own assumptions and create new constructs (25:50) 
• Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow (26:20) 
• Human-centered design (26:45) 
  • Push your imagination to think about what is possible 
  • IDEO-U
• Designing for an entire city (33:30) 
  • Bendable.com
• Drucker Institute (33:30) 
• Culture of learning (34:50) 
• Creative reaction lab (38:10) 
  • TED talk: Designing for a more equitable world | Antionette Carroll  (38:15) 
• Creative Confidence by Tom & David Kelley (40:45) 
• The tenets of design (41:00) 
  • Our attempt to apply design approaches in outer space (47:00) 
• Words create worlds (50:00) 
• Embracing all forms of communication (53:00) 
• Lightning Round (54:40) 
  • Book: Feminism is for Everybody by Bell Hooks 
  • Passion: Swimming 
  • What is making Rachel’s heart sing: Digital literacy 
• National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator (1:00:30) 
  • My project - the Convergence Hub for the Exploration of Space Science
• The ‘era of the generalist’ (01:01:50) 
• Find Rachel online: 
  • Twitter @msrachelyoung 
  • LinkedIn
  • http://msrachelyoung.com/
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series  
  • Rachel’s list