Join us for candid conversations about who gets to imagine the future
We’re so excited to share this invitation to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Unscripted series, which we’ve been helping to produce!
How can spending time imagining the future inspire hope and action today?
We all have a role to play in creating a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right—and just as importantly, in imagining what that future looks like. When more people have the time and resources to imagine, we unlock the collective wisdom needed to create the world we all want.
Curious? Tune in to Unscripted: Candid Conversations about Who Gets to Imagine the Future.
Daily @ 3:00 p.m. ET, October 6 – 10, 2025
Listen in as six guests pair up to talk about the power of “futuring”—anticipating, imagining, and creating possible tomorrows—and explore questions like:
How can people fighting for justice today find hope, agency, and energy to imagine and advance toward more fruitful futures?
How are communities across the country using futuring to dismantle structural racism, break free from oppressive narratives, and challenge perceptions of what’s possible?
Can imagining out loud together—especially when so much of our collective energy is spent reacting to harm and crisis—help metabolize grief into action and transform isolation into kinship?
What is the role of artists and spiritual workers in shaping the future?
In Conversation:
Keolu Fox, Indigenous futurist and genome scientist, UC San Diego & Native BioData Consortium, talks with ancestral futurist Lonny J Avi Brooks, Cal State East Bay & AfroRithm Futures Group.
Lonny J Avi Brooks talks with artist and worldbuilderAisha Shillingford, Intelligent Mischief.
Aisha Shillingford talks with disruptive foresight practitioner Laura Burney Nissen, Portland State University.
Laura Burney Nissen talks with future shaper and cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge, TILT: The Institute for Love and Time.
Julia Mossbridge talks with intersectional Afrofuturist and sociologist Joan Mukogosi, Data & Society Research Institute.
Five daily episodes, each one building on the last as the guest one day becomes the host the next day.
Tune in for one, two, or all five episodes, livestreamed on LinkedIn and YouTube.
Also:
Do you love stickers? In the spirit of being “unscripted” and bringing some joy to the hard work you all do, we invite you to co-create with us: Hear something sticker-worthy during the talks? Drop it in the chat! We’ll put together a cool sticker pack from the week that you can order for free while supplies last—for yourself, and a friend—to help keep the conversations going.
