Introduction
Alycia de Mesa is a transdisciplinary storytelling & communications faculty member with research interests in Indigenous data sovereignty, food sovereignty, digital equity, sustainability / ESG. Alycia is pursuing her Human & Social Dimensions of Science & 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.
Expert
Transdisciplinary storytelling expert: Alycia de Mesa's 25-year professional focus has been to help companies, organizations 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. Faculty instructor (2015-2023) of communications & storytelling for ASU School of Sustainability graduate programs and undergraduate courses in core sustainability topics.
Fields of expertise: Communication and information/ICTs, Education, Environmental policy / climate change, Policy design and delivery, Science policy, technology and innovation policy, Social innovation / public sector innovation / policy innovation, Strategic planning, Sustainable Development Goals