OLIVIA BURRUS

Olivia Burrus is an expert in social innovation and design thinking for the greater good. As a behavior change researcher at RTI International, she is passionate about human centered design for meaningful change... I grew up in a French-American household where I was taught to hold my utensils continental style, that bread and wine with dinner are a given, and no matter what, salad comes at the end of the meal. Because I also went to a French immersion school through high-school, it was the same at my friends' houses. You can imagine my shock when I got to college only to see people switching their fork and knife between hands, and [GASP] eating their salads first or even worse, with their main course! (By the way, who in college thinks of it as a main course?! Nerd alert)... Growing up in the Bay Area, I thought I was so worldly and knowledgeable about different cultures. After all, it's a really diverse place. But once I left this bubble, I realized I knew very little about how the..