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Conscious Attention Economy Principles
In coordination with the United Nations (UN), I lead a multi-stakeholder working group that has produced Universal Principles for a Conscious Attention Economy. The purpose is to address the extractive economic pattern of global over-consumption and exponential technologies, that are wreaking havoc on human attention. The Conscious Attention Economy Principles offer building blocks that will support healthy technology innovation for the next generation conscious, mixed-reality world by infusing our digital experience with respect for the human and natural world.
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Since I was young I have been drawn to the subtext — what is not said, what is not seen, what moves beneath the surface of things. I wrote as a teenager: "If the Milky Way were not within me, how could I have seen it or known it?" That question has never left me. It is still the one I am living.
As a chiropractor I explored the complex interdependent systems of the human body. Any doctor will attest there is a mystery about us that, despite all of our science and knowledge, defies quantification. Something in the wholeness itself cannot be reduced. That recognition shaped everything that followed.
Then, while still in my 20's, my spiritual teacher suggested I explore technology. I had a deep aversion to it — an innately holistic thinker, I saw it as the ultimate reductionist system. Yet it was an invitation to explore the unknown, so I accepted.
What I discovered is that the intricacy of our human bodies extends to our creations. The endless dynamic complexity of interdependent technology systems — just like the human body — must be seen holistically. The technological world we create is as mysterious a part of nature as we are.
Physicists tell us that matter is mostly composed of space. When we fail to include the invisible — the space between the atoms, between our words, between the notes on a musical instrument, between the branches of a tree — we fail to apprehend the totality of ourselves, our world, and any moment to moment situation.
The thread running through all of it has always been attention — how we direct it, what it reveals, what becomes possible when we learn to use it wisely and with care.
Conscious Economics
Advisory and collaborative work with multi-stakeholder initiatives at the international level. Co-author of the Conscious Attention Economy Principles — addressing the extractive patterns of global technology on human attention and sovereign choice developed in collaboration with the United Nations. Advisor for Aligned for Impact (ALFI), a collaborative initiative by the Schwab Foundation, where she was co-author of the Data Governance Principles and Lessons Learned Reports on data collection and on the Board of Advisors of Impact Hub Global.
Data Architecture & Governance
Three decades of work a seasoned data architect, who began her technology career as a systems programmer at MIT. As an expert in Data Warehouse Architecture, she succeeded in bridging the gap between emerging technologies and enterprises. She led a data warehouse consulting company; major health, government, and financial systems initiatives; and as principal consultant led the future data strategy for one of the world’s largest regional development banks.
Developed over decades of contemplative practice and group facilitation, 'applied meditation' — integrates expanded self-awareness into the daily lives of top executives, global change leaders, and entrepreneurs, bridging the personal and professional for a unified whole. Whether trekking in power places of South America or traversing hallways of corporate America, she interweaves the culture and daily challenges of living and working in the world, because she personally continues to balance these worlds in her daily life. Offered to individuals and intimate groups, by referral.
I currently call home a quiet village on Lake Chapala, Mexico where I co-founded Foodbank Lakeside to address the region’s food poverty through partnering with local grocers and community volunteerism. I enjoy a simple yet fulfilling lifestyle within a warm-hearted community, maintaining a harmonious balance exploring my own creative expression with an active professional life that often involves international travel.
