Michelle Shevin

Michelle Shevin, Principal at Future Preservation Society LLC, is a technologist and researcher passionate about how technology, policy, and culture intersect to shape social change. Future Preservation Society helps clients navigate complexity and uncertainty with a focus on cultivating the conditions for long-term human thriving. She most recently spent seven years at Ford Foundation as Senior Program Manager of the Catalyst Fund, a $50M+ landmark investment in cross-sector infrastructure to prioritize people and publics in technology change. Michelle is a founding partner of the cross-philanthropic Public Interest Technology Infrastructure Fund, as well as the National Science Foundation's Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) program. She has lent strategic foresight and planning to organizations across sectors, including helping the US Navy navigate the energy transition and managing open innovation programs as a strategy consultant at Luminary Labs. As professor of futures thinking at NYU’s ITP program, she developed a popular course to help students navigate intersections of critical theory, narrative change, and strategic planning. She holds an MA in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School and a BA in Anthropology: Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from Barnard College, Columbia University.