Artist, inventor and professor Jiabao Li was almost not born. When her mother became pregnant with Li during the era of China’s one-child policy, she had to battle to keep her second child. Over 330 million abortions were performed in China between the policy’s introduction in 1979 and 2013. “My mum had to fight not to abort me,” Li says.
Today, the 33-year-old Harvard graduate is an associate professor in the art and design department of Northeastern University in Oakland, in the US state of California. She previously worked as an inventor and designer for Apple and founded both the Ecocentric Future Lab at the University of Texas at Austin – to research non-human intelligence – and a multimillion-dollar medical start-up.
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