Lyn Jeffery leads IFTF’s Foresight Essentials program, supporting people, organizations, and communities to develop their own foresight capacities. A cultural anthropologist and an IFTF Distinguished Fellow, Lyn explores how people make sense of the rapidly changing world around them, whether a “left-behind” child in a Sichuan village, a leader in a multinational organization developing their own futures thinking skills, or an amateur musician experimenting with new VR instruments. Before joining IFTF, Lyn worked in China as a tour guide, nonprofit researcher, Fulbright scholar and television producer. Lyn has enduring interests in learning experience design, mobility, social media, collaborative technologies. She holds a BA in Chinese Studies and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Katherine Haynes, MBA, has made a career of founding and leading new functions in complex organizations. She was the founding Director of Technology and Information Exchange at University of California San Francisco’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies where she pioneered and spread a method of community collaborative research. As the founding Executive Director of Diversity at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Northern California, her team transformed language access and fostered disparities reduction work in the health care delivery system. In professional and volunteer roles, Katherine has led strategy development and governance, and overseen organizational change. As a consultant, she has worked across industries to build health and social services strategies. Currently, she leads philanthropic efforts to advance Black health equity at California Health Care Foundation, is an Affiliate of Institute for the Future, and serves on the board of American Jewish World Service, a human rights organization working in the Global South.
Katherine honed her foresight skills as a senior IFTF researcher. She applies them in her work with health providers and health foundations to design and implement scalable, sustainable programs.
Director, Vantage Program –Over his more than two decades at IFTF, Rod has brought this interest in how people face the future to a diverse portfolio of projects, including in the Future of Health, Food, Technology, Education, Immigration and Work among many others.
IFTF Fellow and Affiliate. Partner and co-founder of Edutainment for Equity, and key organizer of the Life is Living Festival, Hodari develops projects and campaigns that focus on elevating the voices of Young People, and African people worldwide, actively engaging them in explorations of the past and the future.
Chief Operating Officer–recently returned to IFTF after a tenure as a senior program officer at a foundation in Northern California. Rachel bridges the world of foresight and philanthropy. She is in a unique position to make foresight tools actionable for the sector.
In addition to this core team, throughout the course we will be bringing many of IFTF’s researchers and practitioners to share their expertise, including IFTF Executive Director Marina Gorbis.
