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design fields, we might think of networking in a conference room where people in button-down shirts nervously thumb at their CVs and portfolios, hoping for the right eyes to notice and guide them. Or maybe we think of the slow churn of a young professional apprenticing for a more established one, waiting for the senior to fall so the junior can rise. Esther Choi has a different vision. Choi, an artist with a PhD in the history and theory of architecture from Princeton and a practice that straddles design, photography, and the culinary arts, is creating a new mentorship model