
(Image: Smash the Box)
Smash the Box, a multidisciplinary Seattle-based planning startup, recently won contracts with the Seattle Department of Transportation and King County Metro to join efforts to improve the quality of local transit. Founder Yes Segura, a professional cartographer, has been selling engraved wooden art of maps in order to raise funds to kick start the business.
The firm is diverse in both their leadership and the work they do — Yes Segura, a transgender man and first generation El Salvadoran, founded the firm to provide services ranging from art, to communications, to urban planning and design.
“We’re smashing the box in the way that we’re actually having representation at the table, but also the way that we’re going about it,” Segura said. Continue reading