I'm a designer and PhD researcher at the MIT Media Lab in Boston, Massachusetts. So I work on gardening, participation, and technology design, specifically technologies for women's health. Part of my work focuses on making technologies that help new moms feed their babies. A lot of these technologies that are currently on the market can be really painful for women and just not meet their needs. And part of the reason why this is so is because not enough women have been at the table when decisions about design and technology are being made. So part of my work is to change that, to change who we listen to, and so that we're actually listening to mom stories when we design technologies that are for them. Many people you meet will be having struggles that you don't know anything about, and you yourself will be going through things that you will find it hard to communicate to others. So if we treat each other with kindness and grace as we go through life, it just makes the world a gentler place.