Marika is Co-Founder of MASS Design Group, an architectural nonprofit dedicated to designing well-built environments that aid in the reduction of global poverty. Marika was a lead designer on the Butaro Hospital project in northern Rwanda. She is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard GSD, and will be serving in the first class of global residents at IDEO.org.
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