Being vulnerable is terrifying. Trust me, I know. I’ve spent the last six months attending multiple 1.5-hour seminars each week while struggling to share my experiences, opinions, and half-baked thoughts openly and comfortably. Coming from a military background and a fairly private family, this goes against every instinct of my…

I consider myself a creative and playful person. Concepts like design thinking and user-centred design feed my soul. I blame this on my upbringing in Los Angeles, where music, art, film, theatre, and dance all collided in truly enriching ways. It also helped that I landed in a communications role…

In recent years, I’ve been extremely hesitant to seriously leverage tools like Wardley Mapping despite their usefulness in receptive environments. Long story short, there are two camps in the sector I’m from — the design-oriented folks who look for every excuse to call for a workshop decked out with sticky…

Note — This blog is informed by a sit-down chat with Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakaki at the University of College London’s Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose on Jan. 20, 2023. …

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to participate in the AFVentures Fellowship, an 8-week innovation immersion program with the private sector. …

When an Airman comes up with a great idea, it’s not very common for their first thought to be: “I should totally go tell public affairs about this!” And why should it be? My career field’s knee-jerk response to new initiatives has largely been to speculate on the repercussions of…

Times are a-changing and people are increasingly aware of the challenges we’re facing as a species. As humans, we’re incredibly lucky to hold the ingenuity to create incredible innovations like the internet and shamwow, but also to solve problems on a scale beyond what often seems in our reach. In…

Believe it or not, I was not the one who decided to go vegan in my household. Well, not initially. I had toyed with the idea in the past, but never really considered it an option. …