Projects

Diaspora Futures Collective - a futurist community for people of color- work in progress

“Imagining Feminist Futures post-COVID 19” for International Womens Development Agency in partnership with Changeist. 2020

“Protein Challenge 2015 - 2020” with Forum for the Future - ongoing

“Driving Systems Change in Turbulent Times: Future of Sustainability 2019” with Forum for the Future

Myanmar Futures Exchange with the East-West Center 2013-2015

Interviews

“Resilience 2032 Conversations” for the Resilience 2032 project, August 2020

“Change through Systems Change and Futures Thinking” ChangeMakers Podcast, May 2020

“Sustainability, Green Jobs, and the Future of Work” for Working Nation, February 2020

“Futures Methodology that Ignites Creative Thinking” on Foresight Strategies Show, August 2018

“How do Futurists Spot Trends that Shape Our Lives” on PBS Rewire, January 2018

Writing and Blogs

“Discomfort Food: Seeing Food Industry Labor Clearly”- Diary of Discontinuity, Forum for the Future, May 2020

Minimizing Shock: Imagining a More Equitable Future in ”After Shock: The World’s foremost Futurists reflect on 50 years of Future Shock”, Abundant World Institute, February 2020

“Future of Food” for the GAP Partnership of the Negotiation Society, May 2019

“The Future of Childcare”, MISC Magazine, July 2017

“Retail Horizons” a series of 6 articles on the future of retail in GreenBiz, July 2014

“Myanmar Futures Exchange: Development at the Crossroads” in Journal of Futures Studies, September 2014

Speaker and Facilitator

“Four Trajectories for Post-COVID Futures” at the East-West Center, May 2020

”Thinking Like a Futurist” at ThinkXChange on Family Prosperity, Aspen Institute, October 2019

“Re-thinking Lunch: Applied Futures in Practice” at PRIMER Speculative Design Conference, New York, June 2019

“Future of Retail” at World Futures Society Conference, San Francisco, June 2017

The Shift: Future of Business and Design" for Worklife Ventures, September 2020

Teaching

Visiting fellow at the East-West Center focusing on teaching futures and systems change as applied to leadership projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Also providing curricular support and consulting.

Guest lecturer at Parsons School of Design on applied futures. Provide students with case studies on how futures thinking can be applied to global challenges. Led design hackathon on sustainable fashion.

Design, Games, and Speculation

Writer for “Eat Trash, Be Free” a TTRPG zine

“Metro Test Zones” a project of the Extrapolation Factory performed at The Shed in New York, August 2019

“Ever Beautifully Changing Now” Episodes 1 &2 on Bored Ghost – a gaming podcast, March 2019

Education and Awards

M.S. Foreign Service / Georgetown University: Concentration in International Development

Critical Language Scholarship for Urdu in 2009

Fulbright Scholar / India 2005-2006

B.S. Anthropology and History/ Carnegie Mellon University: minor in engineering

Organizations

Board Chair, Bitch Media - a feminist pop-culture media organization

Advisory Board, Sahiyo - an organization seeking to end female genital cutting in the South Asian community

Member, Association of Professional Futurists