Biography
Miriam Lueck Avery
Miriam Lueck Avery is a Research Director working primarily with the Health Horizons, Global Food Outlook, and Ten-Year forecast programs. As an anthropologist, her overarching interest lies in how the rhythms and choices in people’s everyday lives individually and collectively make the future. As a forecaster, her passion lies in inspiring futures that help make resilient communities, navigate complex transitions and allow people to thrive.
Her research focuses on three main areas:
Well-being futures - Forecasting futures of how we will take care of ourselves and each other to create personal, community, and planetary resilience.
Food futures - Imagining many futures of food that bring together people’s everyday choices, complex social and industrial systems, and critical ecological processes.
Human futures - Understanding the changing landscape of human diversity and its implications for our health, identities, and social systems.
Together with Vivian Distler, Miriam received an inaugural Amara Fund grant for a pro-bono project in partnership with Collective Roots to bring futures thinking to food system change curriculum for middle and high school students in East Palo Alto and across the Bay Area. This and other projects have kindled her interest in participatory foresight and youth leadership. At the other end of the human experience she is intensely interested in the future of aging and death.
She began interning with the Institute in 2003, and joined the research staff full-time in 2007. Miriam holds a degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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