SELECT WORK

Space Futures2017 — Ongoing

Advisor and Convener
SPACE ONTOLOGIES
SCIENCE SUMMIT
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Principal Researcher
CELESTIAL SOVEREIGN
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN

Celestial Futures is a foresight initiative that broadens our understanding of opportunity as we push the physical and technological frontiers of outer space. Building on Celestial Sovereign—which mapped the technological, geopolitical, and economic impacts of space mining across five countries—it examines energy sources, geospatial misinformation, data centers, biosynthetics, and AI in space; and expands the narratives of space futures by centering the voices of Indigenous scientists, conservationists, and technologists.

Fieldwork within organizations including:

Centre for Existential Risk, Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space at the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, European Space Agency, Future of Humanity Institute, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Harvard Law School, MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law, Planetary Resources, and SES Satellites.

Image: Inversion of Antennae Galaxies , 2017

AI and Climate Adaptation2016 — Ongoing

Artificial Intelligence and Data Infrastructure Lead
CLIMATE JUSTICE WORKING GROUP
BERKMAN KLEIN CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY

Principal Strategist
INFRASTRUCTURE INTELLIGENCE LAB

Convener and Facilitator
BEYOND THE CLOUD
SCIENCE SUMMIT
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Co-founder
VERUS INTELLIGENCE

Leader Researcher
ARCTIC CAPITAL
HARVARD URBAN THEORY LAB

This work brings together scientists, engineers, and policy makers to apply climate technology to alternative futures and the collective imagination—from designing speculative data networks in the Arctic, to deploying AI in climate emergencies to mitigate misinformation. It anticipates regulatory shifts, supply chain vulnerabilities, and infrastructure risks before they scale, and cultivates rigorous, creative, and practical policy to address the climate impacts of AI and data infrastructure globally.

Risk frameworks integrate narrative monitoring, geopolitical analysis, and crisis communications, and center information and infrastructure integrity as critical resources.

Photo: MareNostrum Supercomputer, Torre Giona Chapel, 2018

Emerging Technologies
and Biofeedback Systems2016 — Ongoing

Principal
IMPLIKIT

Director
BRAIN AND COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE UNIT
THE FUTURE SOCIETY

Research Fellow
WYSS INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED ENGINEERING

This body of work explores the intersection of artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and collective cognition, anticipating how brain-computer interfaces will transform decision-making and social coordination across sectors. Through neurotechnology initiatives, pneumonic actuation research, and biologically-inspired robotics, the work surfaces critical challenges in emerging brain-computer systems while developing frameworks that address power distribution, privacy, and data ownership.

By investigating how natural cognitive and motor systems inform adaptive artificial intelligence architectures, this research reveals breakthrough approaches to human-AI collaboration, autonomous system design, and distributed problem-solving that transcend current limitations in both individual and organizational intelligence, positioning diverse stakeholders to lead rather than react to the convergence of neurotechnology, robotics, and collective intelligence.

Illustration: 2025

Critical Minerals and
Compute Infrastructure
2008 — Ongoing

Principal & Policy Lead
HUME ATELIER

Principal Strategist
INFRASTRUCTURE INTELLIGENCE LAB

Exhibitor
CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Supply Chain Futures Fellow
HARVARD INNOVATION LAB

Addressing the complex intersection of resource extraction, environmental stewardship, and geopolitical stability through policy development and community-centered research. Contributions to international standards for responsible mineral sourcing have informed landmark initiatives including UNIDO's Global Mercury Project and OECD's Due Diligence guidelines that became industry and government frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.

Through extensive fieldwork in African and South American mining communities, ecological restoration, property rights strengthening, and the creation of traceable supply chains have been supported while addressing the environmental and social impacts of extracting minerals essential for green energy transitions.

Photo: Miner, Central African Republic, 2012

Teaching, Facilitation
and Curricula Design2006 — 2024

Teaching Fellow
Distinction and Excellence in Teaching Award
HARVARD JOHN A. PAULSON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES

Faculty
KAOSPILOT

Lecturer
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Guest Lecturer
PRATT INSTITUTE
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN
HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN

15+ years developing transformative curricula that explores how to solve problems without clean solutions. Specialized in systems design, epistemic pluralism, applied neuroscience, and conflict and collaboration across cultures and technologies.

Teaching Fellow at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, recipient of the Distinction and Excellence in Teaching Award for How to Create Things and Have Them Matter, a course focused on the generation and realization of ideas, with an emphasis on engineering narratives, the neuroscience of creating, and aesthetic intelligence.

International experience spans four continents as faculty at Kaospilot and the University of British Columbia.

Loaded Bow2010 — 2024

Co-Founder and Co-Producer

Loaded Bow is an international community convening artists, scientists, educators, economists, technologists, healthcare providers, and athletes for deep dialogue on risk, culture, and emerging futures.

Faculty have included Indigenous knowledge holders, cultural producers, and strategic leaders from Google DeepMind, Harvard Law Review, MIT, WHO, Wired, and the New York Times, creating rare cross-pollination between sectors typically siloed from one another.

This project has generated 60+ cross-sector collaborations spanning food security to AI in urban planning, with a combined portfolio value of $20M+.