
Ash Seth
Currently a fellow with Rainmaker enterprise and world food program.
Ash is a social innovation strategist, designer, engineer and educator, working at the intersection of technology and sustainable global development. She has spent her career independently consulting for nonprofits and social ventures in Asia and Africa, to develop and deploy hardware and software technologies for development engineering projects in a variety of industries including healthcare, agriculture, and renewable energy. She currently leads product development for Kheyti, an Indian ag-tech nonprofit providing affordable greenhouses for rural farmers in India. Ash is a Senior Expert Fellow for Engineering for Change, a knowledge and community platform aimed at mobilizing the global engineering workforce towards developing technology solutions for people and the planet, where she is expanding the innovation ecosystem for their social impact hardware accelerator, ISHOW. She is a Masters of Development Engineering student at UC Berkeley, and holds a degree in Engineering: Product Design from Stanford University. Ash is on the Junior Board of socio-ecological architecture nonprofit and research group, Terreform ONE, founded out of MIT Media Lab. As a Punjabi born and raised in Dubai, Ash is an advocate for gender and racial diversity in engineering and design. She is a National Science Foundation Digital Transformation of Development Fellow, a MovingWorlds Global Social Impact Fellow, and the Chair of Women in Design San Francisco (Industrial Designers Society of America).
Additional experience includes: developing strategies to integrate the UN Sustainable Development Goals into higher education institutions, nonprofits and social ventures; designing and conducting user research and impact measurement projects; employing her engineering skills and technical chops such as CAD/CAM, prototyping, and design for manufacturability; and, progressing business strategy to implement and scale product and service solutions for marginalized communities in various countries.