Lindsay Aranoff

Activist, Concerned citizen, Environmentalist, Explorer, Foodie

As a designer, curator, and consultant for the last ~13 years, Lindsay's background is interdisciplinary. Some of her favourite collaborators thus far include: the Canadian Government, TED, Google, the World Economic Forum, Herman Miller, MIT, and Black+Blum. A recent endeavour was co-founding a company (Sapientia) with the Chief Technology Officer of Amazon, Dr. Werner Vogels. The company focuses on helping the technology community operate with more integrity. Previous to this, Lindsay spent over half a decade working off Parliament Hill in Canada helping change human rights and genocide legislation. She sat on the board of Open North, an organization that uses technology to engage citizens in the political process. Lindsay has led inaugural projects for emerging communities with organizations like the World Economic Forum. She devised and led the first international project for their Global Shapers’ community involving ~250 hubs/cities. Most of Lindsay's work involves ideating, building and leading teams that are typically around the globe. When she's not overseeing large scale projects, Lindsay uses design work to shake things up. She has designed products from concept to market including bags, rugs, shoes, digital products, and homes. Most recently, she redesigned the interior of a row house in DC. Other side joys include: being a trained death doula, fostering pups, and climbing mountains.

Passionate is a strong word. I prefer: riled about. I'm riled about: bikes (motor & pedal), physiology, spiritual pluralism, street dogs, design, basic human rights, international law, open data, gruelling adventures, racing things (ex: cars or bicycles), turbulence in planes and helicopters, growing food, naming plants, fantasizing (for now) about flying jets, etc.

Stoicism (the meditation version)

adopting house spiders & naming them, being allergic to naps, growing kale

Needs snacks, tea, and a human-built tipi or igloo (season depending). Happy to divulge if you can provide that particular trifecta.

Well, that's suggestive.