Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Instructor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
• PhD Student, Human and Social Dimensions of Science sndTechnology, Arizona State University

Biography

Alycia de Mesa's lineage is as a fourth generation of Arizona and a mixed-race American of Mexican, Apache of Chihuahua, MX, Japanese, British-German descent. She is the Assistant Director of Digital Equity & Social Impact at ASU Enterprise Technology, a Senior Global Futures Scholar for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, School of Sustainability faculty instructor, and doctoral student with College of Global Futures. Alycia is a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab expert.

Her 25-year professional focus has been to help companies, organizations, and individual people succeed with brand development, marketing, communications, and storytelling for engaged outcomes. As a national and international brand and marketing advisor, she has worked with all sizes of business from Fortune 100 to start-ups as well as nonprofits and social ventures. She is a public speaker for corporations, non-profit, academic, and community organizations.

Alycia is the faculty instructor of communications & storytelling for ASU School of Sustainability graduate programs in Sustainability Leadership and teaches undergraduate courses in core sustainability topics. Alycia also served as an adjunct professor of marketing and entrepreneurship for business undergraduates at Benedictine University in Mesa from 2015-2020. At ASU, she has served as Associate Director of ASU Project Humanities initiative and a Research Professional for the NSF funded ASU ADVANCE program, supporting 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 faculty fellows cohorts.

Alycia is currently pursuing her Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (PhD) doctoral degree from ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she is exploring the ethics and boundaries of Indigenous storytelling and counter mapping in context to emerging technologies and smartphones for traditional ecological knowledge restoration within borderlands Indigenous communities.

Education

• BA, Political Science (minor French Literature), Arizona State University

Expertise

• storytelling
• entrepreneurship
• equitable futures
• indigeneity
• indigeneity, the arts and sciences
• sustainability
• equity
• equity, jusice and sustainability
• social responsibiity
• digital storytelling
• branding
• social entrepreneurship
• indigenous theory
• equity and inclusion
• communications

External Links

• Website