Emi Kolawole

Emi Kolawole is a multi-media professional with over a decade of experience and is currently a Firestarter at X, The Moonshot Factory where she is charged with running experiments and finding new business opportunities. Prior to this, she was The Factory Whisperer at X, building and running X’s internal communications program, including originating its moonshot-taking guide, The Gimbal. Kolawole has worked in television, web, and print media. The founding editor of the Innovations section of The Washington Post, Kolawole was invited to serve as the editor-in-residence and as a senior media designer and lecturer at the d.school, working at the crossroads of media and design thinking with a focus on the bias (race, gender, and sexuality) and creative practice. She is also the founding Shaper and former Curator of the Global Shapers Palo Alto hub—an initiative of The World Economic Forum, and she is an alumna of the French-American Foundation Young Leaders program.