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Aimee Rawlins is a senior editor at Fast Company where she manages the "Impact" section, which covers everything from climate change and sustainability to labor and environmental policy. She also heads up the annual World Changing Ideas Awards, which recognize companies and organizations that are driving meaningful change.

Before leading the "Impact" section, Aimee was an editor on Fast Company’s design team, where she wrote about adaptive reuse; one interior designer’s approach to fighting homelessness; and how the Covid lockdowns changed our idea of “home.” She also interviewed Alice Waters about growing a vegetable garden, which was a real highlight of those early Covid days. More recently, she wrote about grappling with the climate-unfriendly parts of her life and trying to change them. It is still a work in progress.

Prior to joining Fast Company, Aimee led CNN’s digital technology coverage. She also spent several years at the Council on Foreign Relations and started her journalism career as a digital editor at Forbes.

Aimee loves cities, and has long been drawn to the people and organizations trying to make them work better—for everyone. She currently lives in Seattle, where she doesn’t have the space for a garden but dreams of the day she will.