GENEVIEVE ENNIS HUME  





PROFILE 

Genevieve Ennis Hume is a strategic advisor and systems designer who helps organizations identify and navigate emerging risk and possibility. From countering crisis misinformation to developing space mining policy, her work connects speculative futures with adaptive frameworks to shape what comes next. 



She is the (co)founder of Fractal, Implikit, Infrastructure Intelligence Lab, Hume Atelier, and Loaded Bow.


EXPERIENCE 






Select Collaborators
Berkman Klein Center
Centre for Existential Risk
Durex 
European Space Agency
Global Mercury Project
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Harvard Kennedy School
MIT Media Lab
Pepsi Digital
Planetary Resources
OPSYS—Venice Architecture Biennale
OECD
The Future Society
Science Summit at United Nations General Assembley
SES Satellite
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
USAID
Select
FellowshipsTeaching Fellow
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
HARVARD DISTINCTION AND EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD
ES 20 How to Create Things and Have Them Matter

Research Fellow
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Idea translation fellowship in pneumonic actuation and soft robotics

Impact Fellow
Summit Impact
Social impact and generative futures

Fellow
Harvard Innovation Lab
Critical mineral and supply chain futures

Climate Impact Fellow
Summit Impact
Collective learning and network mapping with climate leaders    
Select Speaking 
& Facilitation 

 Fractal Risk and Generative Futures
Summit Detroit 

Love Our Monsters
AI & Security, University of British Columbia
Technology as Shapeshifter
Flyfish Club, New York Climate Week 

AI Infrastructure and Climate Crisis
Summit at Sea 

Mining the Nervous System
Smithsonian National Museum of
American History 

Writing Memory Into Meaning
Loaded Bow 

Neuroscience and the Geographically Displaced Crisis 
Ocean Plastic Leadership Summit,
Expedition to the Northern Atlantic
Plastic Gyre 

A More Beautiful Question: Culture, Conflict and The Brain
Team 25 

From Bangui to the Moon: The Risks and Opportunities of Space Mining
Harvard Graduate School of Design

Dimensions of Good: Cognitive 
Science and Machine Learning
MIT Media Lab 

Is Arctic Capital? Climate & the 
Northern Data Economy 
Harvard Urban Theory Lab 

Space Ontologies: Shaping the discourse on expansive futures
Science Summit at 78th United Nations General Assembly

Fieldwork, Design, Risk
Rhode Island School of Design
Pratt Institute 

Education
Master of Design Studies
Risk and Resilience
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Research and Development Award

Master of Arts
International and Intercultural Communication
Royal Roads University

Bachelor of Human Kinetics
University of British Columbia
Valedictorian
Personal Genevieve is working on a wetland restoration project on the South Coast of Vancouver Island that keeps her in the forest and surf. 

She is the parent of a joyful toddler who is both a respite from all that is happening in our world and a reminder of just how high the stakes are.




gen@fractalintelligence.org