Jake Barton is principal and founder of Local Projects, an experience and exhibit design firm that creates ground-breaking experiences. Credits include landmark projects like the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, the London Mithraeum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Local Projects has won awards including the National Design Awards and Cannes Lions, for work that focuses on civil rights (Legacy Museum with the Equal Justice Initiative & Greenwood Rising with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission), sustainability (the Fashion for Good Experience), storytelling (StoryCorps & The New York Times) and education (Planet Word Museum of Language Arts, the first voice-activated museum of language). Barton's TED Talk has over one million views and he is on Fast Company Magazine’s list of top fifty designers.