Karen Piegorsch
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Karen Piegorsch is the Founder and President of Synergo Arts, a nonprofit organization, and CEO of Synergo LLC, a design company based in the U.S. Synergo provides ergonomic solutions to artisans and entrepreneurs in the developing world, mostly in Guatemala.
She has a background in physical therapy and industrial engineering, in addition to a PhD in public health. This allows her to conceive practical solutions that improve productivity and product quality, potentially increasing earning potential while preventing serious damage to the artisans' health.
Karen tells Global X how she was able to build an ergonomic bench that helped artisans achieve in two days what used to take them three. More importantly, she noticed that for these women, "pain was not the limiting factor anymore. They just stopped working because they had other things to do, not because they were in such a pain."
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