Catherine Cuellar – How can we redesign care to strengthen community for generations? – TEDxSMUWomen 2016
The populations of both children and seniors are exploding in the U.S., and each is at risk because they must depend on others for care. As traditional family structures and careers change, intergenerational bonds disintegrate, so knowledge and life skills are lost rather than passed on. How can we design more safe, caring places where children and adults can learn from each other?
Catherine Cuellar is the director of partnerships for RefillWise, a free pharmacy discount and loyalty card helping people afford needed prescription medicines while earning cash rewards. Cuellar previously helmed the Dallas Arts District (the nation’s largest contiguous urban cultural district) and managed communications at Oncor (the sixth largest electric power grid in the U.S.). She is a multimedia journalist, author, and chorister. Cuellar was a 2014 Next Generation Project Texas Fellow at The Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT-Austin. She has been recognized among the Dallas Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” (2013) and was a White House Fellows regional finalist (2011), a Leadership Women graduate (2008), one of the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce’s “Five Outstanding Young Dallasites” (2007), and founding board president of La Reunion TX (2006). She is a graduate of Rhodes College.