A Tech Maximalist: Atif Javed on Human Connection Through Technology

03/09/2025 20 min Temporada 1 Episodio 4

Listen "A Tech Maximalist: Atif Javed on Human Connection Through Technology"

Episode Synopsis

What happens when a childhood experience becomes the seed for a global movement?In this episode of The Solve Effect, host Hala Hanna sits down with Atif Javed, co-founder and Executive Director of Tarjimly, a nonprofit that connects tens of thousands of volunteer translators with refugees and displaced people worldwide.From interpreting for his grandmother as a child immigrant to building a tech-enabled platform that ensures refugees are heard in moments of crisis, Atif shares how personal experience shaped his mission. Together, Hala and Atif explore:Why Tarjimly chooses humans over algorithms in an AI-driven ageHow nonprofits can build financial sustainability amid political and philanthropic headwindsWhat it takes to transform lived experience into scalable impactWhy Atif believes each of us should find “the one problem we can wake up every day determined to solve”Tarjimly is proving that the most powerful technology amplifies human connection rather than replacing it.A full transcript for this episode is available here.- - - - Join our CrowdSolve mailing list for more updates: ⁠https://solve.mit.edu/newsletters⁠ Make sure to follow us on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Instagram⁠, and ⁠Facebook⁠.  Email us at ⁠[email protected]