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Hello There, If you are a prospective student, please check out the list of current students below to see the backgrounds and interests of your potential classmates. Some students have created full profiles on their member page, if they have you will see a link to their profile in the last box.
Here is a list of the domain interests and locations of students registered for the spring '08 semester.
If you are a student looking to add your info to this page, please scroll down for instructions. Thanks.
Posting Directions:
If you are a current student and you wish to post your profile here and you have "writer" privileges for the site, then please click on the "easy edit" button at the top of the page and replace the temp text in the first available 3x2 set of cells. If you don't have and/or don't want write privileges, please just put your answers in an email and send them to pbishop@uh.edu. There is also a longer list of questions to answer when you fill out your member profile page. If you do fill out your profile, please create a link to it, if you so wish.
Here is a list of the domain interests and locations of students registered for the spring '08 semester.
| Washington DC | Political, Middle East | |
| Austin TX | Automotive, energy, environment | |
| Montreal QB | Political | |
| Pasadena CA | Consulting | |
| Zurich CH | Psychometrics | |
| Tulsa OK | Popular culture | |
| Houston TX | Food | |
| Houston TX | Software development | |
| Huron OH | Economics | |
| Tampa FL | Military | |
| Houston TX | Energy efficiency | |
| Houston TX | Public relations | |
| Austin TX | Marketing | |
| Houston TX | Transformative Econoimcs | |
| Houston TX | Transhumanism | |
| Houston TX | Project management | |
| Vancouver BC | Fundamentalist ideologies | |
| Victoria TX | Government | |
| Atlanta GA | Information technology | |
| Houston TX | International relations | |
| Sydney NSW | Integral futures | |
| Houston TX | Sales, IT | |
| Boulder, CO | Risks and Biases, Enhancement, Energy, Science/Tech Policy, Futures Education |
If you are a student looking to add your info to this page, please scroll down for instructions. Thanks.
| Name | Current Work, including location | Futures Interests/Domains |
| Expected Graduation | Pre Futures Background | Full Profile |
| Pam McConathy | Recently started my own communications/public relations consultancy practice with a strategic foresight twist: Foresight Communications Group; www.thinkforesight.com. (Houston TX) | communications, media, technology, futures, entrepreneurism, music, photography; www.linkedin.com/in/pmcconathy |
| May, 2009 | More than 25 years in news reporting, public relations, advertising, marketing and corporate communications | http://www.houstonfutures.org/account/pmcconathy |
| Dennis Draeger | Internship doing a comparative study for the leading edge globally of futures work for a New Zealand based consulting company called Next Corporation. Currently in Auckland but soon moving to Austin to work with Derek Woodgate at the Futures Lab. (Tulsa OK) | media, technology, culture, history, literature, music, environment |
| December, 2008 | Seven years as assistant manager for a sound production company and four years teaching English in Seoul, Korea. | http://www.houstonfutures.org/account/DennisDD |
| Rachel T | Interning with Hazel Henderson's Ethical Markets Media/graduate assistant for the department. In September teaching an undergrad class, the Future of Energy and the Environment at (or really through the University of Houston. (Houston TX) | Transformative Economics, sustainability, futures (of course), science fiction, waste, media, technology, environment. |
| August, 2008 | A decade in interactive and traditional media | http://www.houstonfutures.org/account/racheltu |
| Charles Kennedy | Senior VP at the social trends research company DYG, Inc. (Pasadena, CA) | Forecasting, trends, marketing, memes, brain science, getting ready for the "singularity" |
| 2011 | Extensive background in the field of social, cultural and consumer trends research.I specializes in generational analysis, media trends, and social trend expression through entertainment.For over a decade at Fox Broadcasting, I was responsible for testing viewer reaction to all Fox programs, marketing concepts and brand imagery.A trained moderator, I've conducted over 700 focus groups.My work at the Newscorp owned Fox network involved me in the initial research for the launch of The FX channel, The Family Channel and Fox Sports. The son of a diplomat, I spent most of my childhood and adolescence overseas - in Yugoslavia, Greece, Korea and Italy. | |
| Terry Collins | Futures consultant (Sydney, Austraila) | Integral, energy and personal futures |
| Dec. 2008, maybe June 2009 | 35 years oil & Gas | |
| Ross Schott | Field Service Division Manager for an engineered equipment manufacturer. | Longevity, Human-Enhancement, Cyber-Soldiers / Reading, Martial Arts, Women |
| Summer-2009 | Field Service Division Manager for an engineered equipment manufacturer. (Houston, TX) | |
| Gail C. Siegel | Leader, Business Development and Client Communications, Social Technologies (Houston, TX) | The future of food and restaurants (Foodie Futurist!), privacy law and public record, generational values/class definitions and shifts, future of philanthropy/wealth (US) |
| 2013 | 15 years in fundraising for medical education/medical research | http://houstonfutures.wetpaint.com/account/FoodieFuturist |
| Shawn Clark | Public transit and environmental resources project planning for the area council of governments - we serve the city and county governments for the seven counties surrounding Victoria. (Victoria, TX) | Government, bureaucracy, media, pop culture, marketing, sustainable living, living off the grid, body image, body modification, pets |
| 2009 | Undergrad degree in journalism, MBA. Spent seven years as a journalist. | http://houstonfutures.wetpaint.com/account/shawnrc |
| Catherine Cosgrove | Policy Advisor, Quebec Premier Jean Charest | Use of foresight in government decision-making, organizational development, future of food |
| 2008? | Lawyer. 3 years project management in strategic capacity building one of the 20 most admired knowledge entreprises in the world. 2 years in not-for-profit/health, 5 years as Policy Director for a provincial political party in Canada. Member of the WFUNA Millennium Project Planning Committee. | http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=999569&trk=tab_pro |
| Sean Daken | Software Product Management/Marketing, (Mountain View, CA and Boulder, CO) | Interested in the exploration of long-term technological change and the impacts of emerging technologies on human and natural systems. Interested in improving methods to enable better decisions in organizations affected by rapid technological change and extreme uncertainty. Science and Technology Policy,Sustainability,Decision Science, Cognitive Biases,Cognitive Neuroscience,Systemics, Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, History (specifically broad patterns of human and natural history) |
| 2011 (expected) | Focused on developing rapidly growing businesses and building scalable ecosystems. at Intuit. | http://www.linkedin.com/in/seandaken |
| Elizabeth Chapman | Teacher, Westbrook Academy for Visions in Education Friendswood, TX | Interested in the futures of education, infectious disease, culture and political systems. |
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Posting Directions:
If you are a current student and you wish to post your profile here and you have "writer" privileges for the site, then please click on the "easy edit" button at the top of the page and replace the temp text in the first available 3x2 set of cells. If you don't have and/or don't want write privileges, please just put your answers in an email and send them to pbishop@uh.edu. There is also a longer list of questions to answer when you fill out your member profile page. If you do fill out your profile, please create a link to it, if you so wish.
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