Rebeca Hwang focuses on network-building to connect entrepreneurs and innovators around the world through YouNoodle's online platforms and products. Formally trained as a chemical, civil and environmental engineer at MIT and Cambridge, Hwang has been awarded for her work in the sciences and is the holder of multiple patents.
She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources at Stanford, focusing on the role of social network structures on the performance of water cooperatives.
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Based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, entrepreneur Rebeca Hwang shares why she believes social entrepreneurs are aiming to achieve self-actualization by helping others gain basic happiness through meeting their basic survival needs.