Last year, Emily Pilloton of Project H packed up and left San Francisco for Bertie Country, N.C., with a single mission: to improve life in one of the poorest places in the U.S. through better design.

With her partner Matthew Miller, Pilloton has already established a design-oriented vocational high school program, crafted graphics for an ad campaign promoting free broadband, and built a computer lab and four playgrounds that teach kids math, based on a version done in Uganda. Not bad for just one year.

Find out how what her next plans in Bertie County are in this new Forbes interview: Emily Pilloton on How Design Can Change The World