My name is Genevieve and I am studying Risk and Resilience at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. My background is very interdisciplinary, but I am broadly interested are power dynamics and how they play out at intersections of various fields and technologies. A few examples of related projects that I have been working on recently examine:

• The role of bias, transparency and accountability in AI through The Future Institute at HKS
• The relationship between neuroscience and the risks associated with astronauts’ spacesuits through SEAS
• Applications of soft robotics at the Wyss Institute
• Data extraction and the creation of a data economy in the Arctic through the Harvard Urban Theory Lab

Prior to coming to Cambridge, I was teaching design ethics and intercultural communications in social innovation and technology at the University of British Colombia, Kaospilot, RISD and the Pratt Institute. I have also founded a jewellery company that focuses on international mining policy. We partner with organizations such as the UN, OECD, USAID, etc. on issues relating to property rights and conflict in mineral extraction.

In this course, I am interested in exploring the implications of power structures and technologies across media.

I am from Vancouver, Canada. I really love to surf and snowboard and solidly am mediocre at both.