Regenerative Worldbuilding Collective

Bristol Baughan is a Board Member of the Guild of Future Architects, an Emmy-winning and Oscar-Nominated film producer, and founded Inner Astronauts to help leaders embody the shift from ego to eco-centered consciousness.  She facilitates transformational workshops at Esalen, HATCH, and TED about the inner work of culture change.  Bristol spent a decade in the film business making films for HBO, Paramount, and Showtime. Bristol holds a B.A. in International Studies and an M.A. in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. She is currently weaving regenerative community in the Azores, Portugal.

Fabrice Guerrier is a Haitian-American science fiction and fantasy writer and founder of syllble, a pioneering sci-fi and fantasy production house and publisher that creates fictional worlds by connecting diverse creative writers, visual artists and inspired creators from different countries, backgrounds, and cultures through artist collectives.  His vision is to bring a new era of storytelling in Hollywood and the publishing world by building vibrant collectives of underrepresented creators producing together within unique fictional universes, publishing the best original work that emerges and growing these worlds through creative collaborations, content creation, and transmedia.  Fabrice gave a TED Talk called “Gone are the days of the lone genius.” He runs The Fabrice Guerrier Show, a podcast on the future of humanity. He was selected as a 2022 PEN Emerging Voices fellow finalist and a PEN Haiti fellow by PEN America. He was inducted into Forbes “30 Under 30” list and named to Root magazine’s 100 most influential African-Americans.

Jessica Clark is a media futurist, journalist, and strategist whose work connects ideas across art, technology, and politics. She founded Dot Connector Studio in November 2013—clients have included the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Wikimedia Foundation, the Internet Archive, and other philanthropic and media organizations.  In 2022-23 she served as the Futurist in Residence at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is the co-author of Making a New Reality: A toolkit for inclusive media futures, published in 2020. In 2016, she co-founded Immerse — an online publication designed to spur creative discussion of emerging storytelling. Currently she is a research affiliate at MIT’s Open Doc Lab; previously she held fellowships at USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center and the New America Foundation.  From 2011-2014, she served as AIR’s media strategist, working to develop the  national public media transformation production Localore. From 2007-2011 she led the Future of Public Media Project at American University’s Center for Media and Social Impact.  She has produced research and convenings with high-profile universities and media networks, including NPR, PBS, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, USC Annenberg, and MIT. The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (The New Press, 2010), she was the Executive Editor at national news magazine In These Times, and has written for PBS MediaShift,  the American Prospect and other outlets. She holds a BA/MA from the University of Chicago.