Manini Banerjee is a Biodesigner and researcher. She dreams of a world where design creates conditions conducive to life and follows the laws of natural selection. She is currently designing products that make sustainable futures and technologies accessible at the Silk Lab (Living Devices Laboratory) at Tufts University. Manini is an alumnus of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and was part of IDSA’s RISD chapter. She was a grant recipient for the inaugural Somerson Sustainability Innovation Grant, a TEDx speaker, and a robotics researcher at the Hyundai HQ, and is a design collaborator at the Fluid Interfaces group at the MIT Media Lab.