As a young designer, Emily Pilloton was frustrated by the design world's scarcity of meaningful work.

Even environmentally conscious design was not enough.

"At graduate school, people were starting to talk more about sustainability, but I felt it lacked a human factor," she said.

"Can we really call $5,000 bamboo coffee tables sustainable?" Convinced of the power of design to change the world, at age 26 Pilloton founded Project H to help develop effective design solutions for people who need it most.

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