On June 10th, 2020, we spoke with social inclusion & design specialist, Jasmine Burton, founder of Wish for WASH and a social impact designer who seeks to utilize design thinking, evidence-based research, and business acumen to build a more inclusive world.

Jasmine spoke about the social impact organization that innovates around sanitation. And, in honor of Menstrual Hygiene Day, an annual awareness day to highlight the importance of good menstrual hygiene management (MHM), she spoke about a menstrual product design collaboration she’s working on! Jasmine Burton is a social inclusion and design specialist with a focus on gender equity, meaningful youth engagement, and innovation in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and global health sectors.

An Atlanta native and Georgia Tech Industrial Design Graduate, she is trained in product design and public health, and she is passionate about social justice and human rights. She has led iterative toilet innovation pilots and research across Sub-Saharan Africa with a design thinking lens and in resettled refugee communities as the founder of Wish for WASH, a social impact organization that seeks to bring innovation to sanitation. Jasmine is the Toilet Accelerator Manager and Social Inclusion Lead at the Toilet Board Coalition, Technical Advisor for the gender equity startup Equilo, on the Board of Directors for Planet Indonesia in order to help lead their WASH and gender strategies, a Design/Communications Associate for Women in Global Health, and a former consultant for gender and women's health research organizations Atethemis and International Planned Parenthood Federation.

As a 2018-2019 Women Deliver Young Leader, she spoke at the 2019 WD conference about her work and vision for gender equity in the WASH sector. Jasmine identifies as a social impact designer who seeks to utilize design thinking, evidence-based research, and business acumen to build a more inclusive world.