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<div>Nadia Gathers is a University Innovation Fellow at Converse College. In doing so, she works with epicenter leaders at Stanford university and VentureWell to ensure all students graduate with an entrepreneurial mindset. She is a feminist, like everyone should be. When not actively overthrowing the patriarchy, she is a student at Converse College, where she designed the institution's first Social Entrepreneurship curriculum.</div><div><br/></div><div>Nadia has created a nationally recognized action plan to increase gender diversity in executive suites while increasing profit margins alongside the benefit corporation, Womenetics. She's worked with Buffalo, New York tech start-ups to do the not-so-glamorous dirty work of starting a business. She has developed three award winning business concepts, including a sportswear company tailored specifically to Muslim athletes. She helped create the nation's first environmentally responsive, permanent outdoor video installation, The Front Yard. She's been a facilitator at workshops for at-risk high school students, and coached an all-girls basketball team to a co-ed league championship. Most notably, she once taught a second grader how to read.&nbsp;</div><div><br/></div><div>Nadia is passionate about catalyzing social movements on a local level. She has worked with numerous organizations, including Z80 Technology Incubator, Girl Develop It, Every Person Influences Children, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.&nbsp;</div>
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NARIMAN GATHERS does process. They turn the mushiness of humaning (being a person) into discrete, discernible task flow. Nariman has used this superpower to help design communications identity at Code2040, build and sustain distributed teams at GitHub, manage incident communications at Slack, and tackle some of the nation’s most pressing issues with the ACLU. Currently, they helm the design ops program at Plaid and teach design process at Stanford’s D.School, Fordham University, Converse College and the New School at Parsons. Nariman is the recipient of the 2022 Converse University Young Alumni Prize and a TedX Speaker. They are a proud plant dad, a champion for neurodiversity, and will cry about friend-shaped objects.
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[https://www.nurri.me/ Portfolio]
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A photo of Nariman, a nonbinary Afro-Latiné University Innovation Fellow.
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NARIMAN GATHERS does process. They turn the mushiness of humaning (being a person) into discrete, discernible task flow. Nariman has used this superpower to help design communications identity at Code2040, build and sustain distributed teams at GitHub, manage incident communications at Slack, and tackle some of the nation’s most pressing issues with the ACLU. Currently, they helm the design ops program at Plaid and teach design process at Stanford’s D.School, Fordham University, Converse College and the New School at Parsons. Nariman is the recipient of the 2022 Converse University Young Alumni Prize and a TedX Speaker. They are a proud plant dad, a champion for neurodiversity, and will cry about friend-shaped objects.

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