Noshua Watson is a business, technology, and society researcher who specializes in the role of the private sector in international development. She has worked in media, academia, and the private sector, including for Fortune magazine, the Institute for Development Studies (UK), and technology consultancy firm Accenture.
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Cyborgs from Sierra Leone: Polymath David Sengeh Brings Prosthetics to the People
David Sengeh tells me he'll have to delay our phone interview. “I am sorry to do this but there’s a last minute need for me to attend an Ebola meeting.” Sengeh is a multi-faceted kind of guy. After all, before he started designing prosthetics, he did vaccine research. He grew up in Sierra Leone, where the Ebola epidemic has been harshest. So the 27-year-old MIT PhD student, biomedical engineer and inventor doesn't hesitate to take a few hours away from talking to Techonomy, not to mention writing his dissertation, looking for a job, leading a youth foundation, designing clothes, making music or playing soccer.
