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LAOP 2023 · No. 10
Glenn Llopis; Shalini Vajjhala
We focus on where we can build systems that serve what we need now and what we need next, instead of being in service to the systems that we had.
Shalini Vajjhala
Shalini Vajjhala starts from what people actually need, like clean water and a safe way to work, rather than the plants and highways we build. An architect and engineer who served in the Obama White House and at the EPA, she now designs infrastructure with communities. Her Hoboken story shows the payoff: after weeks underwater from Hurricane Sandy, a planned $5 million flood pump became a $100 million park that holds floodwater and is funded partly by parking.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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