Ahmed Best

Ahmed Best is an award-winning artist, educator, director, the host of the Afrofuturist podcast, and co-founder of the AfroRithm Futures Group, among other pursuits, including his role as Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I. Ahmed teaches Dramatic Narrative Design, a course he created for Film and Actor entrepreneurship at USC School of Dramatic Arts. He is also a Senior Fellow at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and a visiting professor at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

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Lisa Kay Solomon

Lisa Kay Solomon is a best selling author, educator and award winning futurist and innovator. Currently a Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school, Lisa she teaches classes like “Inventing the future” and “View from the future,” to help leaders and learners learn skills to anticipate and adapt to increasingly complex futures. Lisa recently joined the board Long Now Foundation, and is passionate about helping infusing futures thinking and practices into both classrooms and board rooms. She is the creator of the popular LinkedIn learning class, “Leader as Futurist,” and is creative force and co-founder of award-winning civic initiatives like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition,” The Team’s “All Vote No Play” civic programming for student athletes, and “The Futures Happening: Democracy Edition.” Her work has reached tens of thousands of students and next-gen voters.

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We all have an idea of what the future looks like. We can create ideas and products with hopes of an optimistic future, but we can also train ourselves to feel the future. We can use our EMOTIONAL ENGINE and the prime directive of EARTHLING CULTURE to not only have agency of our future but to know how that optimistic Future Feels.

Join us for a deep dive with acclaimed artist, educator, and director Ahmed Best hosted by author, educator and current Futurist in Residence at the Stanford d.school, Lisa Kay Solomon.

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