Episodes

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March 2, 2020

SDG #6 - Wastewater Awareness and Progress with Abishek Dutta

Abishek Dutta is currently a PhD student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He is Pursuing a PhD in Environmental Engineering Thesis work in the Water-Energy Nexus, with a main focus on energy and resource recovery from wastewater to make wastewater treatment cyclic in nature. His past experiences include water and wastewater treatment, biofuel industry, microbiology, river restoration and cell biology. At UNLEASH 2019, Abishek worked on an initiative, (called SNKX) to create a...
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Feb. 18, 2020

SDG #6 - Creating Incentives around Sanitation with Grace Kwak

Grace Kwak is currently in her final year of undergraduate studies as a Life Sciences major at Yale-NUS College. Grace has had a special focus on research public health projects such as adolescent suicide in South Korea and vaccination confidence in Singapore. After graduating in May 2020, she will be starting medical school in Duke-NUS Medical School (https://www.linkedin.com/in/research-assistant-health/) At UNLEASH, Grace’s team created a unique idea around incentivizing people in India to u...
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Feb. 13, 2020

SDG #6 - Water Technology and Grass Roots Movements with Muhammad Miqdad

Muhammad Miqdad (https://www.linkedin.com/in/smiqdad/) is a chemical engineering and economics graduate from the University of Rochester in New York. Currently, Muhammad is working as a global operations manager for Every water, an organization based in Karachi, Pakistan where he supports the international expansion of emerging water based clean technologies. Above all, Muhammad is an individual passionate about utilizing modern technology to improve peoples lives. You can learn more about his ...
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Feb. 5, 2020

SDG #6 - Watershed Management with Claudia Coleoni

Welcome to the first episode of the SDG Talks Podcast! As this is a work in progress, we ask for your feedback so this can improve over time. The goal of this podcast is to create ongoing discussion around the SDG Goals on a daily basis. After many talents had an amazing experience at the UNLEASH 2019 event in Shenzhen China, we were hungry for more progress. While the experience was amazing, we thought: "What happens after the event?". How can we keep the momentum going for 365 days of every y...