Tangent

In this fun episode we visit with Petrina Jackson of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library, a special collections library documenting the history of women in America. The Schlesinger is a research library at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University and it is now running an embedded class called Romancing the Archive: Romance Fiction in Historical and Cultural Context and is taught by Tiya Miles, Michael Garvey Professor of History at Harvard University and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. For more on the Libraries collections and exhibits, visit their new website at https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library

Chris Worp is a global executive turned conservation-focused entrepreneur. After leadership roles at The Ocean Cleanup and Signify, he is now based in South Africa, where he combines conservation work with mission-driven ventures.

In this episode Chris tells us about his move from corporate life to conservation, and an idea he is developing for a new platform that puts a common data model underneath conservation work so that 1) projects can be matched to the right professionals and the right funding, 20 contracts are pre-populated from the data, and 3) every completed match feeds a learning loop that makes the next one better. Where conservation currently runs on networks and reputation, the platform builds a system that works for projects that are too small to be visible and too important to be ignored.