About Kirsten

I am a strategic partner, researcher, and consultant for organizations and communities seeking culture transformation amid increasingly uncertain conditions.

For over 25 years, I have been leading collective engagements and building partnerships in tribal colleges, universities, art museums, non-profits, treatment facilities, and a national laboratory. In all environments, my work fosters relational conditions for collective visioning and strategic collaboration aligned with data science and foresight analysis.

As a Futurist and Organizational Development Program Specialist (HR-People and Organizational Development Group) for Los Alamos National Laboratory, I facilitate strategic planning retreats and discussions, scale innovative culture solutions, and support theory of change processes for organizations.

I am especially interested in ways that multi-disciplinary conversations between social/behavioral sciences, hard sciences, and the humanities interact to spark innovation, inform policy, and create thoughts we didn’t yet know we could think.

I hold a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Dickinson College, an MA in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College, and a PhD in American Studies with distinction from the University of New Mexico.