DtM CEO Timothy Prestero Featured on Skoll's Social Edge
Tue 29 May 2007
"Timothy Prestero, Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast (1995-97), is the Founder and CEO of Design That Matters (DtM). Timothy Prestero was based in the Ivory Coast town of Soubré, working in the Peace Corps's Urban Environment Program. The Corps was placing teams of community volunteers and technical volunteers in local governments to upgrade the city's infrastructure. He spent two years working with the Soubré Public Works department, managing infrastructure projects like the construction of 28 latrines serving 4,000 students at seven local elementary schools." -- from the
Social Edge website, where Peace Corps volunteers describe their new lives as social entrepreneurs. This series of weekly interviews, produced by Patrick O'Heffernan for Social Edge with the help of the National Peace Corps Association, is also available on iTunes.
Listen to the interview, or download the podcast.
Portrait of the designer as a young man: DtM CEO Timothy Prestero laying the foundations for what will become a latrine septic tank for 1,200 elementary school students, during his Peace Corps service in Soubré, Côte d'Ivoire.
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