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Foresight professionals, researchers, and educators in the 50 United States.
This is a subpage of Foresight Professionals, Researchers, and Educators - Global List. See that page for definitions.
Know any foresight professionals, researchers, or educators that should be listed here? Please add them, in this two-line format:
1st Line: Name with link to online bio, Title (if known/any), Inst. name (if known/any), Loc(s), Email (if public, in mailto: format).
2nd Line: Brief description (one line maximum!) of their foresight specialties/interests, as far as you know them.
Format: Alphabetical order by last name, with name in bold, and your entry in 10 point Arial type, in the appropriate location.
This list is a stub. It is ready for your additions. Thank you!
See also our list of Foresight / Futurist Speaker Databases at bottom of Foresight Professionals - Global page.
Alabama (AL)
Ted Hailes, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, AL USA
Alaska (AK)
Arizona (AZ)
Brad Allenby, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Roger Caldwell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Brian Harris, University of Advancing Technology, Phoenix, AZ USA
Tom Lombardo, Rio Salado Community College, Tempe, AZ USA
Reed Riner, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ USA
John Smart, University of Advancing Technology, Phoenix, AZ USA
Arkansas (AR)
California (CA)
Walter T. Anderson, World Acad. of Art and Science, San Francisco, CA
Henrik Bennetsen, Director of Technology, Stanford Humanities Lab, Director, Metaverse U, Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA USA (email)
Creativity and community in online spaces. Metaverse, Second Life. Music and tech. MSc in Media Tech & Games, Aalborg U, Denmark.
Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA USA
David Brin, Acclaimed Science Fiction Author and Futurist, San Diego, CA USA (email)
Physicist, polymath. Public speaker. Interests: social change, openness, innovation, philanth, SETI. Author: The Transparent Society.
Lonny J Avi Brooks, Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA USA
Professor of Comm.. IFTF and Futures-Related PhD. Future of Cyberculture. Ethnographic futures. Social Study of Sci&Tech (STS).
James Canton, Institute for Global Futures, San Francisco, CA USA (email)
Future trends, health care, life sciences, energy, security, climate change, globalization.
Jamais Cascio, Open the Future, East Bay, CA USA (email)
Urban design, climate science, renewable energy, open source models, emerging technologies, social networks.
David Clemens, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA USA
William Cockayne, Director, Stanford Center for Critical Foresight, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA (email)
Ed: Mech. engrg, design, comp. science. L-R planning, foresight, innovation. Fdr, Change Resrch. Affil., IFTF. Author: Mobile Agents.
Jeff Cole, University of Southern California, CA USA
Bruce Cordell, Dean of Natural Sciences, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA USA (email)
Runs the Center for the Future at Fullerton College. PhD in Planetary and Space Physics. Research: Mars missions, space colonization.
J. Bradford DeLong, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
James Dewar, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA USA
Linda Groff, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA USA
Nelson R. Kellogg, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA USA
Robert J. Lempert, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA USA
Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Fdn for Conscious Evolution, Santa Barbara, CA USA
Burt Nanus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Sorel Reisman, Prof. of Info Systems and Decision Sciences, CSU Fullerton. Director, Merlot.org, Newport Beach CA USA (email)
Merlot.org is a platform for online learning materials. Int: Acad. Tech, Info Systems. Author: Electronic Learning Communities, 2003
Paul Saffo, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA
Peter Schwartz, Global Business Network, Emeryville, CA USA
Gregory Stock, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA USA
Melanie Swan, MS Futures Group, Palo Alto, CA USA
Philip Tetlock, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
Len Troncale, Cal State University, Pomona, CA USA (Secondary FS)
A leading scholar of systems science, systems thinking, and systems biology.
Sim Van Der Ryn, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
Pioneer of sustainable architecture. Created the Integral Urban House, 1973. Founder, Ecological Design Institute.
Colorado (CO)
Barry Hughes, University of Denver, Denver, CO USA
Christopher Jones, NeoFutures, Grand Junction, CO USA
Connecticut (CT)
Wendell Bell, Yale University, New Haven,CT (Emeritus or Retired)
James Hughes, Trinity College, Hartford, CT USA
Wendell Wallach, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA. Machine ethics and morality.
Delaware (DE)
District of Columbia (DC)
Joseph Coates, Joseph Coates Consulting Futurist, Washington, DC USA
Jerry Glenn, ACUNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
Ted Gordon, ACUNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
Bill Halal, George Washington University, Washington, DC USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Jennifer Jarratt,Leading Futurists LLC, Washington, DC USA
Lane Jennings, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Timothy Mack, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
John B. Mahaffie,Leading Futurists LLC, Washington, DC USA
David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson Intnat'l Ctr for Scholars, Washington DC USA
Simeon Spearman, Social Technologies, Washington, DC USA
David Stein, WFS FutureTakes, Washington, DC USA
Cindy Wagner, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Florida (FL)
Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets Media, St. Augustine, FL USA
Georgia (GA)
Hawaii (HI)
Stuart Candy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Jim Dator, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Jake Dunagan, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Iowa (IA)
Kansas (KS)
James Gunn, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA
Kentucky (KY)
Louisiana (LA)
Maine (ME)
Maryland (MD)
John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA.
Scholar of internet law. Coined the term "digital native." Author, Born Digital, 2008.
Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten Group. Boston, MA.
Author, Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age. Developer, Programmable Bricks.
Steve Steele, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold MA USA
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Art Harkins, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
Mississippi (MS)
Missouri (MO)
Montana (MT)
Nebraska (NE)
Nevada (NV)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New Mexico (NM)
New York (NY)
Sam Cole, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA
Garry Golden, HoustonMS Futures Studies Graduate, Brooklyn, NY USA
Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Social Research, New York, NY USA
Ernest Sternberg, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA
Ohio (OH)
Jeff Camm, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
Martin Levy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
Oregon (OR)
Hal Linstone, Portland State University, Portland, OR USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Jonathon Richter, Research Associate, Center for Advanced Tech in Education (CATE), U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR USA (email)
Running an SL project at Merlot.org. Int: vPortfolios, Virtual learning (Second Life, etc.), Web 2.0, Serious Games, Sustainability.
Pennsylvania (PA)
J. Scott Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Forecasting, Statistics, Long-Range Planning, Probabilistic Prediction
Art Shostak, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN)
Texas (TX)
Don Beck, Center for Human Emergence, Denton, TX
Peter Bishop, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA (email)
Futures education, futures methods, futures consulting. Dr. Bishop runs the oldest MS program in futures in the world (started 1975).
Terry Grim, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Andy Hines, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Oliver Markley, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Max More, Extropy Institute Chairman, Austin TX USA
Natasha Vita-More, Extropy Institute, philosopher of transhumanism, Austin, TX USA
Verne Wheelwright, Personal Futures Network, Harlingen, TX USA. Personal futures.
Cindy Frewen-Wuellner, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Utah (UT)
Margaret Wheatley.Founder, Berkana Institute. Provo, UT.
Complex systems, sustainability, and leadership and community development.
Vermont (VT)
Virginia (VA)
Clem Bezold, Founder and Chairman, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA (email)
Alternative futures, horizon scanning, scenario development, health care futures.
Jay Gary, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Robin Hanson, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA
Gary Marx, President, Center for Public Outreach, Vienna, VA USA (email)
Futures education, communication, community, democracy consulting. Author: Ten Trends, Sixteen Trends, Future-Focused Leadership.
Jonathan Peck, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA
John Petersen, The Arlington Institute, Alexandria, Virginia USA
Marsha Rhea, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA
Bruce Snyder, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Washington (WA)
Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service, San Juan Island, WA USA
Founder, WA Tech Industry Assn "Fast Pitch" investor forum. Dir, Future in Review (FiRe) Conferences., and FiRe Global Events. Major futurist.
Brenda Cooper, Sci-Fi Author; Contributor, Futurist.com Kirkland, WA USA
Accomplished science fiction writer, futurist, IT professional. Interest in sociocultural futures. Author, Wings of Creation, 2009, many other titles.
Glen Hiemstra, Dir, Futurist.com, Kirkland, WA USA
Leading futurist, speaker, consultant, blogger. Runs the excellent destination site, Futurist.com
Eric Horvitz, Researcher, Microsoft, Bellevue, WA USA
Leading Artificial Intelligence researcher. Convened a Conference at MS on Killer Robots/Friendly AI in 2009.
Chuck Murry, Co-Dir, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
Pathologist, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Expert. Articulate and passionate about the future of regenerative medicine.
Nathan Mhyrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA USA
Former CTO, Microsoft. Intellectual Ventures is a "genius shop" developing Patent Portfolios and doing Exponential Technology investments.
Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Microsoft, Bellevue, WA USA
Rick coordinates 850 IT researchers. Largest corporate IT R&D institution in the US. Very future oriented speaker.
Siva Sankrithi, Lakeside School and RSV Invention and Creation Enterprises, Seattle, WA USA
Teaches Math, Chess, and Music at Lakeside HS. Interested in foresight education at the HS level.
Jan Vandenbos, Founder, Seattle PNW Future Salon, Seattle, WA USA
Jan runs the PNW Future Salon. Interests include space, energy, solar power, anti aging research, social media.
Sparky Toews, Webmaster, Futurist Now, Seattle, WA USA
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI)
Wyoming (WY)
2. Let's work on expanding the WA list before our next meeting
This is a subpage of Foresight Professionals, Researchers, and Educators - Global List. See that page for definitions.
Know any foresight professionals, researchers, or educators that should be listed here? Please add them, in this two-line format:
1st Line: Name with link to online bio, Title (if known/any), Inst. name (if known/any), Loc(s), Email (if public, in mailto: format).
2nd Line: Brief description (one line maximum!) of their foresight specialties/interests, as far as you know them.
Format: Alphabetical order by last name, with name in bold, and your entry in 10 point Arial type, in the appropriate location.
This list is a stub. It is ready for your additions. Thank you!
See also our list of Foresight / Futurist Speaker Databases at bottom of Foresight Professionals - Global page.
Alabama (AL)
Ted Hailes, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, AL USA
Alaska (AK)
Arizona (AZ)
Brad Allenby, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
Roger Caldwell, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Brian Harris, University of Advancing Technology, Phoenix, AZ USA
Tom Lombardo, Rio Salado Community College, Tempe, AZ USA
Reed Riner, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ USA
John Smart, University of Advancing Technology, Phoenix, AZ USA
Arkansas (AR)
California (CA)
Walter T. Anderson, World Acad. of Art and Science, San Francisco, CA
Henrik Bennetsen, Director of Technology, Stanford Humanities Lab, Director, Metaverse U, Stanford U, Palo Alto, CA USA (email)
Creativity and community in online spaces. Metaverse, Second Life. Music and tech. MSc in Media Tech & Games, Aalborg U, Denmark.
Stewart Brand, Long Now Foundation, San Francisco, CA USA
David Brin, Acclaimed Science Fiction Author and Futurist, San Diego, CA USA (email)
Physicist, polymath. Public speaker. Interests: social change, openness, innovation, philanth, SETI. Author: The Transparent Society.
Lonny J Avi Brooks, Cal State East Bay, Hayward, CA USA
Professor of Comm.. IFTF and Futures-Related PhD. Future of Cyberculture. Ethnographic futures. Social Study of Sci&Tech (STS).
James Canton, Institute for Global Futures, San Francisco, CA USA (email)
Future trends, health care, life sciences, energy, security, climate change, globalization.
Jamais Cascio, Open the Future, East Bay, CA USA (email)
Urban design, climate science, renewable energy, open source models, emerging technologies, social networks.
David Clemens, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA USA
William Cockayne, Director, Stanford Center for Critical Foresight, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA (email)
Ed: Mech. engrg, design, comp. science. L-R planning, foresight, innovation. Fdr, Change Resrch. Affil., IFTF. Author: Mobile Agents.
Jeff Cole, University of Southern California, CA USA
Bruce Cordell, Dean of Natural Sciences, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA USA (email)
Runs the Center for the Future at Fullerton College. PhD in Planetary and Space Physics. Research: Mars missions, space colonization.
J. Bradford DeLong, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
James Dewar, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA USA
Linda Groff, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA USA
Nelson R. Kellogg, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA USA
Robert J. Lempert, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA USA
Barbara Marx-Hubbard, Fdn for Conscious Evolution, Santa Barbara, CA USA
Burt Nanus, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Sorel Reisman, Prof. of Info Systems and Decision Sciences, CSU Fullerton. Director, Merlot.org, Newport Beach CA USA (email)
Merlot.org is a platform for online learning materials. Int: Acad. Tech, Info Systems. Author: Electronic Learning Communities, 2003
Paul Saffo, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA USA
Peter Schwartz, Global Business Network, Emeryville, CA USA
Gregory Stock, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA USA
Melanie Swan, MS Futures Group, Palo Alto, CA USA
Philip Tetlock, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
Len Troncale, Cal State University, Pomona, CA USA (Secondary FS)
A leading scholar of systems science, systems thinking, and systems biology.
Sim Van Der Ryn, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA
Pioneer of sustainable architecture. Created the Integral Urban House, 1973. Founder, Ecological Design Institute.
Colorado (CO)
Barry Hughes, University of Denver, Denver, CO USA
Christopher Jones, NeoFutures, Grand Junction, CO USA
Connecticut (CT)
Wendell Bell, Yale University, New Haven,CT (Emeritus or Retired)
James Hughes, Trinity College, Hartford, CT USA
Wendell Wallach, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA. Machine ethics and morality.
Delaware (DE)
District of Columbia (DC)
Joseph Coates, Joseph Coates Consulting Futurist, Washington, DC USA
Jerry Glenn, ACUNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
Ted Gordon, ACUNU Millennium Project, Washington, DC USA
Bill Halal, George Washington University, Washington, DC USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Jennifer Jarratt,Leading Futurists LLC, Washington, DC USA
Lane Jennings, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Timothy Mack, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
John B. Mahaffie,Leading Futurists LLC, Washington, DC USA
David Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson Intnat'l Ctr for Scholars, Washington DC USA
Simeon Spearman, Social Technologies, Washington, DC USA
David Stein, WFS FutureTakes, Washington, DC USA
Cindy Wagner, World Future Society, Washington, DC USA
Florida (FL)
Hazel Henderson, Ethical Markets Media, St. Augustine, FL USA
Georgia (GA)
Hawaii (HI)
Stuart Candy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Jim Dator, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Jake Dunagan, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI USA
Idaho (ID)
Illinois (IL)
Indiana (IN)
Iowa (IA)
Kansas (KS)
James Gunn, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS USA
Kentucky (KY)
Louisiana (LA)
Maine (ME)
Maryland (MD)
Michael Marien, WFS Future Survey, Bethesda, MD USA
Robert Ulanowicz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA (Secondary FS)
Theoretical biology. Studies ecosystem dynamics in quant. and quasipredictive ways that can be broadly applied to social systems.
Massachusetts (MA)Robert Ulanowicz, University of Maryland, College Park, MD USA (Secondary FS)
Theoretical biology. Studies ecosystem dynamics in quant. and quasipredictive ways that can be broadly applied to social systems.
John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA.
Scholar of internet law. Coined the term "digital native." Author, Born Digital, 2008.
Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten Group. Boston, MA.
Author, Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age. Developer, Programmable Bricks.
Steve Steele, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold MA USA
Michigan (MI)
Minnesota (MN)
Art Harkins, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA
Mississippi (MS)
Missouri (MO)
Montana (MT)
Nebraska (NE)
Nevada (NV)
New Hampshire (NH)
New Jersey (NJ)
New Mexico (NM)
New York (NY)
Sam Cole, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA
Garry Golden, HoustonMS Futures Studies Graduate, Brooklyn, NY USA
Susantha Goonatilake, New School for Social Research, New York, NY USA
Ernest Sternberg, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY USA
Ohio (OH)
Jeff Camm, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
Martin Levy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH USA
Oregon (OR)
Hal Linstone, Portland State University, Portland, OR USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Jonathon Richter, Research Associate, Center for Advanced Tech in Education (CATE), U. of Oregon, Eugene, OR USA (email)
Running an SL project at Merlot.org. Int: vPortfolios, Virtual learning (Second Life, etc.), Web 2.0, Serious Games, Sustainability.
Pennsylvania (PA)
J. Scott Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Forecasting, Statistics, Long-Range Planning, Probabilistic Prediction
Art Shostak, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Rhode Island (RI)
South Carolina (SC)
South Dakota (SD)
Tennessee (TN)
Texas (TX)
Don Beck, Center for Human Emergence, Denton, TX
Peter Bishop, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA (email)
Futures education, futures methods, futures consulting. Dr. Bishop runs the oldest MS program in futures in the world (started 1975).
Terry Grim, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Andy Hines, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Oliver Markley, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX USA (Emeritus or Retired)
Max More, Extropy Institute Chairman, Austin TX USA
Natasha Vita-More, Extropy Institute, philosopher of transhumanism, Austin, TX USA
Verne Wheelwright, Personal Futures Network, Harlingen, TX USA. Personal futures.
Cindy Frewen-Wuellner, University of Houston, Houston, TX USA
Utah (UT)
Margaret Wheatley.Founder, Berkana Institute. Provo, UT.
Complex systems, sustainability, and leadership and community development.
Vermont (VT)
Virginia (VA)
Clem Bezold, Founder and Chairman, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA (email)
Alternative futures, horizon scanning, scenario development, health care futures.
Jay Gary, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Robin Hanson, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA USA
Gary Marx, President, Center for Public Outreach, Vienna, VA USA (email)
Futures education, communication, community, democracy consulting. Author: Ten Trends, Sixteen Trends, Future-Focused Leadership.
Jonathan Peck, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA
John Petersen, The Arlington Institute, Alexandria, Virginia USA
Marsha Rhea, Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria, VA USA
Bruce Snyder, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA USA
Washington (WA)
Mark Anderson, CEO, Strategic News Service, San Juan Island, WA USA
Founder, WA Tech Industry Assn "Fast Pitch" investor forum. Dir, Future in Review (FiRe) Conferences., and FiRe Global Events. Major futurist.
Brenda Cooper, Sci-Fi Author; Contributor, Futurist.com Kirkland, WA USA
Accomplished science fiction writer, futurist, IT professional. Interest in sociocultural futures. Author, Wings of Creation, 2009, many other titles.
Glen Hiemstra, Dir, Futurist.com, Kirkland, WA USA
Leading futurist, speaker, consultant, blogger. Runs the excellent destination site, Futurist.com
Eric Horvitz, Researcher, Microsoft, Bellevue, WA USA
Leading Artificial Intelligence researcher. Convened a Conference at MS on Killer Robots/Friendly AI in 2009.
Chuck Murry, Co-Dir, Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
Pathologist, Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Expert. Articulate and passionate about the future of regenerative medicine.
Nathan Mhyrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA USA
Former CTO, Microsoft. Intellectual Ventures is a "genius shop" developing Patent Portfolios and doing Exponential Technology investments.
Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Microsoft, Bellevue, WA USA
Rick coordinates 850 IT researchers. Largest corporate IT R&D institution in the US. Very future oriented speaker.
Siva Sankrithi, Lakeside School and RSV Invention and Creation Enterprises, Seattle, WA USA
Teaches Math, Chess, and Music at Lakeside HS. Interested in foresight education at the HS level.
Jan Vandenbos, Founder, Seattle PNW Future Salon, Seattle, WA USA
Jan runs the PNW Future Salon. Interests include space, energy, solar power, anti aging research, social media.
Sparky Toews, Webmaster, Futurist Now, Seattle, WA USA
West Virginia (WV)
Wisconsin (WI)
Wyoming (WY)
2. Let's work on expanding the WA list before our next meeting
