Facilitators and Advisors
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EVAN BLAISE WALSH is the Programs Manager at the Guild of Future Architects, and is an NYC-based photographer, writer, and curator from Philadelphia, PA whose work addresses trauma, chosen family, and mythologies of masculinity. As Exhibitions & Projects Manager for GoFA Shared Future and artist collective and For Freedoms, Evan coordinated the team behind the 50 State Initiative, and managed operations and curatorial for The For Freedoms Congress. In his three years with For Freedoms, he curated and produced over 40 special projects and programs with MoMA, MOCA LA, The ICP Museum, Guardian US, Planned Parenthood, The Japanese American National Museum, The Armory Show, Kickstarter, Photoville, and more. With the Guild, Evan manages the Community of Practice, Collective Wisdom Platform, Shared Futures, and Learning Programs.
Jacob is a maker, storyteller, organizational consultant, and meditation teacher. In the realm of storytelling, Jacob has developed films, novels, tv shows and executive produced the TV series Dark Rye. He has also produced award-winning multi-media content for brands such as Whole Foods Market, created video games and immersive experiences, and studied the narrative construction of self and reality. In the realm of consulting Jacob works with teams to improve group dynamics, start new initiatives, and refine organizational, creative, and brand strategies. Jacob has been a student of meditation and transformative disciplines for over 25 years, and now teaches online and around the world. He is also an avid practitioner of martial arts and reader of science fiction. Jacob holds a B.A. from NYU, and is currently a visiting scholar at NYU’s ITP where he explores ancient and emergent technologies-of-self.
Jessica Clark is the founder and director of Dot Connector Studio (dotconnectorstudio.com)—a strategy and production firm that works with makers, funders and academics to research and develop new forms of social impact media and art. She is also the editor of Immerse.news, a publication exploring nonfiction storytelling on emerging platforms, as well as of the Guild of Future Architects’ newly-launched publication, GoFAR. Recent clients include Media Impact Funders, the Ford Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, Knight Foundation, Democracy Fund and others. She is a research affiliate at MIT’s Open Doc Lab, and previously a fellow at USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center and the New America Foundation.
Kamal is the Executive Director of the Guild of Future Architects and Senior Consultant to Sundance Institute. She serves as External Advisor to MacArthur Foundation's Journalism & Media Program, Creative Advisor to For Freedoms, MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality, Starfish Accelerator and Eyebeam. Previously she was Director of Sundance Institute's New Frontier Lab Programs. She was commissioned by Ford Foundation's JustFilms to research equality in emerging media, which resulted in "Making a New Reality."
Lafayette’s practice engages projects at the intersection of urban planning and speculative fiction. He leverages the radical imagination and world building capabilities of speculative fiction and the multi-disciplinary, strategic implementation tools of urban planning in order to imagine, plan, and build a more equitable, just, and sustainable future.
Madebo 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 “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 the Guild’s Futurist Writers’ Room. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Micheline is a Somatic Artist, Embodiment Catalyst, Post-Modern Dancer, and Spoken Word Weaver. She has spent the past 25 years exploring embodiment as a way to heal trauma and reconstruct new narratives of resilience, identity, and radical imagination through the body. Micheline designs and directs GoFA’s 5C Immersive Meditation Program, an embodiment atelier to spark radical imagination in the body, from individual explorations to complex collaborative bodies.
A graduate of LACHSA and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Robert is a future architect tinkering, building, and designing at the crossroads of art, culture, and technology with a dedication to beauty, justice, and inclusive imagination. Through his family creative practice at Sinclair Futures, and GoFA’s Futurist Writers Room, Robert’s art focuses on world building and storytelling aimed at inspiring the imagination of a future we actually want to live in.
Sharon is the Founder of the Guild of Future Architects. Her work focuses on reframing the relationship between creativity, capital, and impact. Nearly two decades of her open exploration and learning have resulted in a new framework—future architecture—that harnesses the intangible to shape complex cross-sector, context-driven and systems-level collaborations. Sharon develops interdisciplinary and intersectional projects within an ecosystem of operations that includes Yoxi, her impact investment practice dedicated to funding inquiry; 19340, her film financing and production company behind notable films such as BAFTA-nominated “The Eagle Huntress”; and her experimental family office that examines how wealth intersects with culture and society.
Tony is a future architect with a penchant for creating fictional worlds which have catapulted him into future-facing residencies and galvanized his Community-World building practice. When he's not advocating for underrepresented students to embark on game design/tech careers, he's generating new artworks, prototypes, and solutions for communities-at-large.
