Planting seeds to grow empowered and sustainable communites using collaborative world-building, skill amplification, and leadership development with converging emerging technologies.

Moon Garden transforms Garden One and Manna Lab into a new trimesh metaverse environment. Drawn and animated using Procreate, Blender, and Meta Horizon Worlds.

Plant Seeds! Created in partnership with the Virtual World Society for Augmented World Expo, Long Beach CA, 2024. Created with Primitive Shapes and Block Scripting, Meta Horizon Worlds. Join your friends in the greenhouse. Select seed cans and pop on a hat. Shake the seed cans to plant to grow flowers, you can plant them everywhere! Achieve quests by planting the most flowers and finding hidden crystals. Grow better together and share more love and peace with 30+ friends! Accessible in VR, PC, or Mobile.

Green Helsinki City Table-Top Model. Featured in Prototype Immersive Sustainability Lab, Helsinki Finland. In partnership with the Helsinki XR Center and the Virtual World Society. 2024

Sustainability Lab Metaverse Worlds: Manila, Philippines, and US Bank Plaza, Minneapolis MN

 

Metaverse Worlds

  • Created 300+ Metaverse Worlds!

  • First group of Horizon Worlds Creators, 2019

  • Founder of Horizon Art Museum. 30+ Worlds

  • Better World Museum, 200+ Worlds

  • Founder, Women in Horizon, 930+ Members

  • How Bees Make Honey, in “Make Some Noise” Horizon Worlds Product Launch, Meta, 2020.

  • Horizon Future Farms, Mini-Game Accelerator Program.

  • Melitta’s Garden: Financial Empowerment Game, Oculus Launch Pad, and Horizon Launch Pad,

  • Awards: LuckyAI, Empathetic NPC (2021), Generating Coral, Best Potential Product (2022), XR Brain Jam, Games for Change

  • Horizon Art Museum recipient of “People’s Choice” Vidyuu Awards, 2022.

  • Founder of VR Garden over 4000 participants, including Singapore, Shenzhen, Beijing, San Francisco, New York, Miami. 2016-2022

  • Metaverse Producer, Vikram, (Unreal), for Alt Ethos. Largest grossing Tamil Bollywood film in history. Metaverse trailer premiered at Cannes Film Festival, (Forbes, NYT) 2022.

Empowered Communities

  • Building Diverse Communities in Horizon Worlds, Meta Connect 2021

  • Better World Museum’s Artist in Residence Program. Members dismantle a white-walled museum to ‘build a better world”. Participants compensated with micro-donations to their favorite charities.

    • Angl’Artist, Black Women’s Art Museum recognized by Mark Zuckerberg

    • VJFranzK, Connection > Competition, Neurodiverity Exhibit

    • ShayArtsz, Positive Affirmations, and Junteenth World Opening

  • Women’s Summit, Women in Horizon Worlds. International Women’s Day, and Women’s Summit II, November, 2022.

  • Designing Empowerment, VRARA Storytelling Group. Alt Ethos, VRARA Association, 2022

  • Women, World-Building and 5th Wave Feminism, XR Women, Virbella Campus, 2022

  • Performing World-Building Workshop, Creating Culture, Presentation at DiVRse Summit, ASWARA Performing Arts, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022

  • Women, World Building and Empowerment, XR Global Summit, 2021

Platforms for a Better World

  • Museums in the Metaverse, Alt Ethos, Immerse Global Summit, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, 2022

  • Museum in the Metaverse, Panel at AWE, Augmented World Expo, 2022

  • +Community Voices Program, Horizon Art Museum. Teaching World-Building, Amplifying Diverse Voices, & Mico-Donation Compensation. 15 Artists/15 Charities, 2020-2022

  • Presented Recipe for Resilience: Teen Leadership Roles. Better World Museum, Rec Room. Art & Covid Symposium, World Health Organization (WHO) + Create 2030, 2020

  • Founder, Better World Museum

    • Downtown Minneapolis, MN (2014-2019),

    • VR Garden, Pop-Up Museum Singapore, Shenzhen, Beijing, San Francisco, New York, Miami

    • Rec Room, VR, PS5, IOS/Android

    • Horizon Worlds, VR

  • Inagural Facebook Community Leadership Fellow, 2019.

  • VR Garden, Facebook Global Safety & Wellbeing Summit, 2019