Futures strategist and writer, working across disciplines.

My work is often organized around global flows: the movement of people, goods, information, and capital. I've learned that locating ourselves in systems requires engaging directly, not theorizing from a distance.

Through my foresight studio I produce Supervisions and Superscans, speculative scenario work and horizon scanning reports that reveal possibilities and paths for implementation. In 2025, I initiated Future Texas, documenting the changing character of futures-thinking in Texas through technology, religion, crime, art, warfare, media, science, and space. I write from the Chihuahuan Desert, in a light-filled office that looks toward the 10,000-year Clock of The Long Now.

My long-term research explores hidden systems: digital infrastructure, borders, sensory and social memory, and the philosophical and visual languages we use to describe how things change.

My background includes a decade at Apple during the Steve Jobs era, working on international supply-chain programs, including the first iPhone launch and expansion into Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, as the company transformed from near-bankruptcy to global influence. That work showed me how technological shifts reshape the world, sometimes faster than we can adapt.

I then established my consultancy on the rural US-Mexico border while studying innovation and invention at MIT and completing postgraduate research on social futures in border regions at Royal Roads University. Fourteen-hour commutes through Permian Basin oilfields shaped my questions about observation and scale.

Human experience at the edges of systems is a consistent theme: I've designed programs for humanitarian operations, refugee settlement, and leadership development in fragile states. I served on the board supporting a U.S. Man and the Biosphere Region in an at-risk ecosystem spanning Mexico and Texas. In 2024, I was selected through a nationwide competition as community steward for NASA's Artemis Moon Tree program, securing Tree 203, which traveled 43,051 miles beyond the moon.

Alongside consulting, my creative work explores scent, light, media, and simulations. It has been shown at Los Angeles Scent Biennial, organized by The Institute for Art and Olfaction at Craft Contemporary; my early internet work was recognized by SXSW Interactive in Austin. I coordinated operations for Ballroom Marfa, Prada Marfa, and Marfa Dialogues Houston. The latter was a symposium on planetary futures presented at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Menil Collection, and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Writing and images have been published in Palladium (San Francisco), Chronicle Books (San Francisco), ODOU (London), Bust (New York), and Soundscreen Press (New York). After a forty-year deep breath, I am writing my reflections on circumnavigating the globe as a young person through the fading Cold War, drifting Western hippies, enduring colonialism, and the rise of globalization.

I hold an MA in Leadership from Royal Roads University. Additional training spans professional foresight at University of Houston, technology innovation at MIT, and foundations in art and design at Alberta University of the Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and Accademia Italiana, Rome.

I'm based in Marfa. If you're working on speculative design, alternative futures, or policy horizons I'd welcome a conversation.

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