Julia is a creative omnivore with a love for new ideas, experiential storytelling, strategy, emerging tech, and the intersectionality of it all. An Emmy and World Press Photo award-winning creative and content director, she has worked on everything from the world’s most innovative brands to creative startups and small shaman-led businesses changing the way we express, connect, work, and think today.
I am most excited to work on projects that… are playful yet thoughtful, immersive and innovative, beautifully filmed or well designed, and interdisciplinary and collaborative.
I am looking for partners who can help me… develop tech, find funds, connect to brands.
A moment when I felt most inspired in my work was… running a creative lab where I got to invent and develop new ideas with writers, designers, technologists, UX/ UI folks, and more. Like the time with Brian Chirls when we turned a “what if” into an AI tool. Or the time with Altimeter when we created a set of physical objects inspired by digital interfaces as a way to talk about the future of work. Or the time with Nathan Phillips when we crafted a short internet film about the pandemic, and the visual techniques of the film also inspired a virtual camera.
Innovations in my field that I am most excited to work on… involve applying creativity and storytelling to emerging technologies like AI, generative art, Web3, etc.
Brian is an active-duty Army lieutenant colonel and an associate professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His professional military experience includes various armor and cavalry command and staff positions from platoon to brigade levels and operational and combat deployments to Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Brian previously served as director of West Point’s Center for Innovation and Engineering, where he coordinated and funded multidisciplinary project-based design education and research efforts for various Army, Department of Defense, and civilian sponsors. Brian holds a PhD in engineering education and is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia. He holds leadership positions within the American Society for Engineering Education and is a frequent reviewer for multiple academic journals.
I am most excited to work on projects that… expand my thinking by connecting knowledge in unique ways.
I am looking for partners who can help me… think differently.
A moment when I felt most inspired in my work was… seeing West Point cadets and RISD students connect in powerful ways.
Innovations in my field that I am most excited to work on… include new ways of imagining leadership in creative, complex, and interdependent design settings.
Lyndon is N Square’s inaugural network weaver in residence. He is also a visiting research associate at King’s College London, a Web3 advisor to the Vatican’s New Technologies for Peace working group, and cofounder of PATH Collective, a mission-driven startup aimed at advancing the objectives of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons by combining the power of contemporary art and storytelling with the financial sovereignty of Web3. Previously, Lyndon was civil society advisor to the New Zealand delegation at the 2015 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. He received the McElvany Nonproliferation Prize from the James Martin Center for his essay on a user-pays model for international nuclear risk reduction.
