Rebecca Hui

Overview

Rebecca Hui is co founder of Roots Studio a social enterprise connecting rural artisans to U.S. markets through a prints and design licensing model. Rebecca has had a five year passion exploring India s rural to urban transition having first followed cows in her mapping project titled Life Through the Perspective of a Cow. This project evolved into a three year study on city animal conflict that she undertook as a Fulbright Scholar and National Geographic Young Explorer. She also tracked dogs in Moscow that were riding the metro and investigated China s development influence in Africa. Itching to turn insight into action she became an MIT TATA Fellow working as a consultant to the government of Maharashtra alongside the World Bank on strategic planning and modeling of rural water supply systems. Rebecca envisions the Rurban a project in which villagers strengthen skills and assets that they can use in their villages rather than having to migrate into cities. As art is one such skill Roots Studio seeks to financially support multiple lifetimes of artistic passion through digitization. Roots Studio is affiliated with the Stanford Center for Social Innovation the Girlboss Foundation The Unreasonable Institute StartX and MIT100K.