Adanna Shallowe
As a foresight practitioner, Adanna is passionate about employing foresight tools to empower everyone to create a more just and equitable futures for their communities and societies. She is the co-author of Stitch in Time, a foundational Royal Society of Arts thought piece on the value of future and foresight in policy making for changemakers. She is also an accomplished relationship manager with significant experience in the field of international affairs and policy development.
Previously Adanna was the project lead for an international skills development programme for UK youth aged 18-26 yrs. She also held research positions within the UNDP working on democratic governance, poverty reduction and HIV/AIDS prevention and education and with Trinidad and Tobago government on its national foresight exercise – Vision 2020.
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Adanna sees the world through the lens of someone from a small island. She is interested in narrative futures, the stories we tell about ourselves both in traditional ways and using modern tools and how this shapes our futures. She believes in the power of storytelling and the remaking of futures rooted in diaspora, heritage, and legacy.
She is based in London but is a Trini to the bone.
Q&A
What are the types of problems you like solving?
In the wake of so much upheaval and suffering, I want to use foresight methods and approaches to interrogate and challenge myths and forge a new way forward by working and collaborating with each other across silos and artificial barriers.
What areas of work can people contact you for?
I love working on challenges that bring others together across and/or within communities aimed co designing new pathways. I employ approaches such as workshop facilitation using deliberative methods, sense making, harvesting global insights and best practices through horizon scanning and by harnessing the power of networks.
