We are a collective of producers, strategists, facilitators, artists, researchers, and futures practitioners working at the intersection of philanthropy, social impact, democracy, media, regeneration, arts, and culture.

Our Team

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EVAN WALSH
Director, Community & Partnerships

KATIE DONNELLY
CEO

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CHRISTIE GEORGE
Senior Advisor

ROBERT SINCLAIR
Worldbuilder

JENNA RINES
Research Lead

COLLIN RIGGINS
Creative Lead

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BRISTOL BAUGHAN
Regenerative Leadership Coach

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MADEBO FATUNDE
Foresight Strategist and Poet

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ERIN WASHINGTON
Waymaker

Our Values

Compassion.

We are rooted in empathy for our colleagues, our clients, ourselves, and the people our clients serve.

Subversion.

We are devoted to care and radical imagination most of all—not agendas or institutions. Disruptions are portal moments.

Clarity.

We face challenges, emotions, problems and the truth head-on without being led by cynicism and despair.

Invention.

We strive for lifelong learning, creativity, and experimentation. Bold ideas are encouraged.

Interdependence.

We center co-creation, rooted in our shared stories and lived experiences, fostering inclusion, community, and belonging.

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Our Philosophy

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Grounded in Groundlessness

We live in a world where a million possibilities bloom and die every day.

Organizations and people, in grasping for stability, often try to ignore the inertia, confusion, and grief wrought by constant change that sits underneath everything we do. We might attempt to barrel forward towards a clear future that may no longer exist—or never did. Because of this, we feel slowed, lost, or stuck.

We are often grappling for clear answers to questions that feel nearly impossible to answer: How do we make decisions? How do we land on a strategy or path forward? How do we take care of each other?

In this time of great unraveling, Dot Connector’s work advances a version of reality in which there is no singular future or strategy or answer. Instead, we let go of the illusion that the future can ever be known.

We believe bold theories of change are futile unless the individuals within teams, organizations, and systems begin to better understand how collective transformation is interrelated with the relationship between “I” and “we.”

We believe that in order for our visions to become a shared reality, we must change ourselves as individuals and build our own personal relationships with imagination.

We embrace the work of the future that’s coming—a future that requires us to be much more emergent, responsive, agile, creative, and human. 

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Since 2020, our team of artist-researchers has tracked the growing epidemics of grief, loneliness, burnout, and patriarchal and racial violence emerging from the resurgence of authoritarianism in the West, rising again from the ever-looming shadow of America’s history.

This research points to a clear premise: a populace awakened to its grief and to its imagination is a radical threat to systems that seek to dominate, to distract, and to lay claim to the future. For just change to unfold, futuring work must be grounded in a true embodied transformation—a move towards learning how to be more human in increasingly inhumane and unhuman times.

Our work and experience proves that restoration, rest, and grief are essential practices for our collective project of building a better future. Through our work, we invite in the human emotions that are often unspoken or repressed—and yet often are the very forces driving organizations in moments of transition, disruption or change. We welcome fear, grief, confusion, exhaustion, failure, and trauma as essential soil for the process of change and grow them into wonder, awe, clarity, passion, and imagination. And we make it fun, joyful, and full of inspiration and care along the way!

The future is not predicted. The future is rehearsed.


— Zen Buddhist nun and author Sister Dang Nghiem,
quoting futurist Frank Diana in Time