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.
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