Charu is a startup advisor, founder of Righteous Design (a social impact design consultancy), and lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, where she created the course Design for Recovery (Healing). She was previously the Design and Product Director for Sutter Health’s Design and Innovation team, an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and a senior design lead in IDEO’s health practice. Some of her favorite work includes Planned Parenthood, Scout for Sutter Health (a youth mental health app) and Clinica Aviva in Peru. Charu holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from Miami University, and a master’s in business administration from Harvard University.