KATIE DONNELLY | CEO
Katie Donnelly has worked across sectors to develop purpose-driven small businesses, conducted UX research in the tech industry, ran a nonprofit, and served as a consultant to foundations and organizations seeking to plan strategy and assess impact. She has conducted extensive research on how to effectively measure impact in a rapidly-shifting environment, led numerous large-scale research campaigns and organizational culture change initiatives, and authored a series of educational activities and toolkits. She holds a master's degree from Temple University, where she studied how media messages and tools shape relationships, health, work, and happiness.
COLLIN RIGGINS | CREATIVE LEAD
Collin Riggins is a photographer and filmmaker from Kansas City, Missouri. He is driven by a curiosity around how intimate, visual storytelling shapes our collective memory, capacity to imagine, and ability to transcend. Collin is also interested in expanding access to the arts, co-founding IMAG(in)E, a free film photography program for high schoolers in The Bronx. Collin has presented his photography at The Hessel Museum, MoCADA, and Magnum Foundation. He recently premiered a documentary called “Copper Boyz” on PBS and co-directed “A DREAM CALLED ROSHAD” in conjunction with the NAACP.
JENNA RINES | RESEARCH LEAD
Jenna Rines is a social work and research professional with experience working in healthcare settings as well as in community engaged research. She was a Social Work Health Futures Fellow and holds a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto. She has also completed certificates in environmental justice, climate change, and healthcare sustainability. Jenna is passionate about collaborative and interprofessional responses to social and environmental injustices, and contributing to healthier and more equitable futures.
EVAN WALSH | DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIPS
Evan Walsh is a cultural strategist, facilitator, and futurist working at the intersection of collective imagination, personal transformation, and systems change. Across his work with Dot Connector, Magnum Foundation, For Freedoms, and the Guild of Future Architects, Evan has led emergent communities of practice and global initiatives that reframe dominant narratives about our past while expanding who gets to imagine and shape our collective future. With an emphasis on somatic experience, artistic expression, and care, his work maps how to build pluralist narrative and cultural power while creating the conditions for people and institutions to dream of, to embody, and to build a more just society. His collaborators include Pop Culture Collaborative, Cinereach, Guardian US, McGregor Fund, Aperture Magazine, the ICP Museum, the Guggenheim, MOCA LA, the Japanese American National Museum, the Doris Duke Foundation, Sundance New Frontier, Bennett College, and many others.
BRISTOL BAUGHAN | REGENERATIVE LEADERSHIP COACH
Bristol Baughan is a spec fiction writer, TED Fellow, Emmy-winning and Oscar-Nominated film producer, and founded Inner Astronauts to help facilitate the shift from ego to ecological consciousness. She works 1:1 and in groups to support people in the shift from extractive to regenerative ways of being and creating through inner transformation and storytelling. She offers Slow Co-living for leaders and creatives Jan - April at a former Franciscan monastery turned boutique hotel in the Azores.
MADEBO FATUNDE | FORESIGHT STRATEGIST & POET
Madebo Fatunde is a foresight strategist and a writer, building a practice at the intersection of arts, technology, and culture. His passion is using storytelling about the future to empower better decisions today. Some current projects of his include BLKNews, “The Blackchain,” a speculative future which imagines a world around a Pan-African blockchain network, and “Unmanned Ode”, a poetry collection exploring the codes of masculinity composed alongside and against a neural network. He is a member of GoFA’s Futurist Writers’ Room.
CHRISTIE GEORGE | SENIOR ADVISOR
Christie George is a writer, producer, and activist who has been working at the intersection of media, technology, and social change for 25 years. She is the former President of New Media Ventures, where she oversaw investment into more than 80 progressive startups, and is a founding principal of The Togethering Lab. In her creative practice, she is particularly interested in time, memory and archives, especially work that explores and expands the idea of collective authorship. Christie recently released The Emergency Was Curiosity — an illustrated book, exhibition, and event series about cultivating creative attention — and writes the newsletter Practice Practice. She holds degrees from Yale and Oxford and is a proud board member of the Indivisible Project. Christie lives along the Russian River in northern California with her partner and two children.
ROBERT SINCLAIR | WORLDBUILDER
Robert Earl Sinclair is a Future Architect & world-builder tinkering, building, and designing at the crossroads of art, culture and technology with a dedication to beauty, justice and inclusive imagination. A graduate of LACHSA and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Sinclair is a multicultural writer/actor and international hip-hop recording artist whose music has been featured on TV and radio in over 30 countries. Through a family creative practice at Sinclair Futures, Sinclair’s art focuses on world building and storytelling aimed at highlighting and addressing the beauty and struggles of marginalized people, perspectives and artists. As an original member of GoFA’s Futurist Writers’ Room, he’s facilitated speculative future world building workshops and been featured by Sundance Film Festival, Google Creative Lab, The Guggenheim, Rockefeller Foundation, Pop Culture Collaborative, Doris Duke Foundation, and For Freedoms.
ERIN WASHINGTON | WAYMAKER
Erin Michelle Washington is a Creative Waymaker and ecosystem builder working at the intersection of arts, land stewardship, and community care in the American South. They are the founder of SoulCenter and co-founder of Clarke Street Fund, FreshGreens Market, and HBCUx—initiatives that together form a Southern regenerative ecosystem advancing cultural infrastructure, community wealth, food systems, and creative entrepreneurship in Montgomery, Alabama and beyond. Washington is committed to imagining and designing a future where queer/trans/gnc youth are well.