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Best of Design Matters: Dr. D’Wayne Edwards

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

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The Importance of Mentorship

Robert Greenberg gave a 19 year old black kid from Englewood with no college education opportunity to design shoes for his company. "He didn't discriminate against me. He just saw someone with talent that he wanted to leverage," she says of the white Jewish man who was her first professional mentor. 'If it wasn't for Robert seeing just raw talent and challenging me to elevate up in this environment'

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