Season 3 | Episode 12 – Places She Shapes with Zoe Smeeth

This week, Zoe sits down with Christina Hsieh, structural engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers, and founder of Matter, a consultancy she built around social value long before the term existed.

Christina's story begins with a documentary, a dream, and a decision that put almost everyone she loved against her. She applied to study in the UK in secret, having never held a passport or set foot in an airport. What happened when she finally arrived is the kind of thing you couldn't make up, and it's only the beginning.

She's remarkably open about the moments that shaped her: the mentors who saw something she couldn't yet see in herself, a rebuild on the other side of the world, a diagnosis that changed everything,  ...