Tech & Society
Youth / Gen Z
University of New Mexico · Fall 2026
Growing Up Algorithmic: What It Means to Emerge Alongside an Era of Emerging Technology
Guest lecture on algorithmic justice, examining what it means for young people to develop identity, agency, and ethics while emerging alongside rapidly advancing technology.
Tech & Society
Civic Imagination & Democratic Futures
Rutgers University · Digital Politics · Fall 2026
Reprogramming Democracy: Civic Agency and Imagination in the Age of AI
Guest lecture for Rutgers' Digital Politics course examining how AI and digital mediums are reshaping political life — from the machinery of government institutions to the everyday behavior of constituents — and the questions of civic agency and civic imagination that follow. A second thread turns to navigating the workplace and job market amid AI-driven disruption, drawing on the founding of Conscious Futures Studio as a working case study in building meaningful work at a moment of technological upheaval.
Futures & Foresight
Wellbeing & Healing
Collective Futures + Climate Hope Open Mic
Panel co-designed with ReImagine Story Lab as part of the day-long Stories that Move program — a conversation on why hope matters in climate storytelling with Anatola Araba (ReImagine Story Lab), MaryAnn Talavera (NYU Tisch Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center), Diamond Spratling (Girl + Environment), and Tory Stephens (Grist's Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction), followed by a collective writing and open-mic session moving the room from imagination toward shared visioning.
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Futures & Foresight
Youth / Gen Z
Youth Innovators Fellowship · ReThink Citizen · September 2026
Connecting the MVP to the Vision: Grounding Speculative Futures in Lived Reality
Returning for a second year to facilitate the fellowship's Week 4 session for youth innovators ages 14–23 — helping participants define success beyond their MVPs, connect individual projects to a shared collective vision, and ground speculative futures, protopia over utopia, in lived reality.
Intergenerational
Civic Imagination & Democratic Futures
Intergenerational Perspectives on Navigating the Moment: Crisis, Changemaking, and Community Change Efforts
Co-presenting with Spence Limbocker on intergenerational perspectives for navigating crisis and sustaining community-led change efforts.
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Futures & Foresight
Tech & Society
Civics Unplugged Civic Innovation Academy · UPenn · Philadelphia, PA
Workshop: What Futures Have We yet to Imagine?: Imagination, Education, and Future of Work in the Age of AI
Designed and led an experiential 60-minute session on operationalizing imagination for 40+ high school fellows at a week-long civic leadership academy hosted at the University of Pennsylvania. Session centered on constrained creativity as a tool for navigating AI-driven uncertainty in education and the future of work.
Futures & Foresight
Youth / Gen Z
World Futures Day – Young Voices · Teach the Future
Sandbox for Imagination: A Playground for Regenerative Futures
Designed and facilitated an interactive, intergenerational workshop engaging global youth and adult participants in experiential futures practices, ethical AI dialogue, and collaborative worldbuilding exercises to strengthen futures literacy and regenerative imagination.
Futures & Foresight
Tech & Society
Harvard Innovation Lab Start-Up Fair
Experiential Futures Sandbox
Activated an interactive AI + Imagination Curriculum experience at Harvard's i-lab, engaging undergraduate and graduate innovators in hands-on futures literacy, ethical AI exploration, and worldbuilding practices that strengthen imagination as a real-world skill.
Civic Imagination & Democratic Futures
Tech & Society
Wired Human Roundtable · U.S. Capitol
Youth Coalition Ambassador
Facilitated a cross-sector roundtable convening policymakers, technologists, and civic leaders to explore ethical AI, youth wellbeing, and the future of digital public infrastructure — guiding dialogue that bridged youth voice, policy design, and human-centered innovation.