Spring 2025 Roundtables | Can Social Change-makers make the World Just? | MIT 32-124
Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/20/2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location
MIT 32-124
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Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bhardwaj
Director of Design for Innovation Program in humanities and social sciences, Keller Center, Princeton University
Manish directs Keller Center’s Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.