Minnie is a Principal & Creative Director at Pinterest leading design & product strategy initiatives that span the entire product, with an emphasis on wellbeing, safety, and inclusion, ensuring Pinterest stays a safe and positive corner of the Internet. Prior to Pinterest, she founded Big Wonder, a venture-backed edtech product focused on helping teens find purpose in the heart of the mental health crisis.
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In past roles, she was a design leader at IDEO and Frog Design. She has spent most of her career designing programs focused on youth, mental health, and education such as a multi-national reproductive health program for teens, a digital coaching platform to help first-generation college students succeed in higher education, and a program to help transitional-aged youth involved in the justice system learn about their rights to help prevent recidivism.

With 18 years of industry experience, she has been featured as a keynote speaker at the World Bank, SXSW, United Nations, TEDx and the World Design Summit, and her work has been published by TIME, WSJ, Bloomberg, and Fast Company, to name a few. She is currently working on her first book about the science of inspiration.