The Collective

Members of the Diaspora Futures Collective come from diverse organizations engaged in teaching, systems change, consulting, art, design, community organizing, and more.

Member Mansi Parikh Member Mansi Parikh

Mansi Parikh

I am a Foresight & Innovation Strategist building more inclusive and vibrant futures, cultural research & strategy projects for clients and experiments in the liminal spaces between the past, present and futures

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Member Alisha Bhagat Member Alisha Bhagat

Alisha Bhagat

Alisha Bhagat is a futurist and strategist whose work focuses on the creative use of futures tools such as strategic foresight and scenario planning to impact long term positive change, particularly around issues pertaining to social justice and sustainability

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Member Luisa Ji Member Luisa Ji

Luisa Ji

Luisa Ji is a multi-disciplinary creative, designer, and strategist. Most days, she finds herself stewarding provocative arts programs and projects that embody polyphony and a profound sense of weirdness. Rather than something to look at, art is infrastructure.

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Member Luisa Ji Member Luisa Ji

Wayne Pan

I am interested in how we can build new systems, inclusive and sustainable and restorative from the ground up, to replace the existing, breaking systems founded in exploitation that we have today. I am currently a Research Director at the Institute for the Future.

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