20 FOR 2020
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JODY WILLIAMS
& RITA SODI
Via Carota co-chefs/owners and
2019 James Beard Award recipients
JENNIFER DOUDNA
Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and
Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at
the University of California, Berkeley
“We hope to see a vigorous commitment to fighting
climate change with a new gold standard of
carbon-neutral footprints, plastic-free and no-waste
kitchens, plus sustainable eating.” ➤
“I think a lot of listeners and
fans are now more open-minded to the
idea that a record doesn’t have
to be confined to one particular genre
and can mix country and hip-hop,
for example.”
NORMANI
Singer-songwriter
“I hope to see the public tangibly
benefit from medicines
based on CRISPR [a genome-
editing technology codiscovered
by Doudna and Emmanuelle
Charpentier, director of
the Max Planck Unit for the
Science of Pathogens
in Berlin, that allows scientists
to change or remove genes
quickly] to treat the
most intractable cancers and
genetic diseases.”
“I IMAGINE BRANDS
WILL BECOME MORE
EXPERIMENTAL
IN THEIR
APPROACH TO MAKE
MEANINGFUL
CULTURAL
CONNECTIONS.
BOUNDARIES
BETWEEN
DIFFERENT FORMS
OF CREATIVE
EXPRESSION WILL
CONTINUE TO
BLUR, AND
DIVERSITY WILL
BE MORE
MAINSTREAM.”
GRACE
WALES
BONNER
Fashion designer
Grace Wales
Bonner’s
design
for Dior’s
Resort 2020
collection
“We can advance a new kind of ecology
where artificially designed and organic materials
create synergies between the made
and the grown. E. coli can be transformed into
edible sugar; grass converted
into diesel; corn transfigured into plastic.”
NERI
OXMAN
Architect, designer,
and professor
at the MIT Media Lab
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