Opening KEYNOTE
Cadine Navarro, Artist + Urban Planner
Cadine is a tri-cultural artist and urban planner who works with ecology, public space, and community. Her work draws on a Japanese aesthetic and worldview, the country where Navarro was born and raised with French and American dual citizenship. The arc of her research-based practice explores regenerative models with potential to catalyze a shift in our relationship to self, each other, and nature.
Learn more about Cadine’s body of work here.
AM Panel and Breakout Information
Emergent Democracies: Power, Participation + Civic Life
This panel explores emerging approaches to participation, power, belonging, and collective decision-making. Drawing on perspectives across community, culture, and civic life, panelists will examine how people are reimagining democratic practices and creating new possibilities for shared power. The conversation will look beyond what needs to be protected or repaired to consider what we might design, build, and practice differently to shape more inclusive civic futures.
Moderated by Mary Li (She / My Name, Asian Diaspora), who brings over 30 years of experience in facilitation, training, coaching, and consulting within and across County organizations to groups and individuals.
Panelists include:
Joy Alise Davis (they/she) - President and Executive Director, Imagine Black - Hailing from Cincinnati, Joy Alise Davis holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Miami University and a Master of Arts in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design. A speculative design strategist and founder of the award-winning Design + Culture Lab, Joy Alise serves as President and Executive Director of Imagine Black and Imagine Black Futures, where they work to help the Black community imagine the alternatives they deserve and build the political participation to achieve them.
Emi Day - Founder, One Day - Emi is an architect, strategist, and founder of One Day, a neighborhood placemaking studio focused on social impact, climate action, and community resilience. Working across civic, technology, and education sectors, she brings a human-centered approach to designing more connected cities. As the 2026 Van Evera Bailey Fellow, she is reimagining Portland's bridges as public spaces for joy and belonging.
Justine Nakase (she/her) - Artistic Director, Theatre Diaspora - Justine is a theatre maker and educator whose research and creative practice focuses on race, identity, and performance. She is the Artistic Director of Theatre Diaspora, Oregon’s only professional Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company, which is committed to portraying diverse AAPI cultural, historical, and social perspectives to reach broad audiences.
AM Breakout Session
(Your) Life x Design: A Hands-on Workshop for Makers, Movers, and Creators
Led by Jooyoung Oh and Mary Li
A condensed, hands-on session using design thinking to reflect on where you are, imagine new possibilities, and explore intentional next steps for your life and future.
⚡️ Lunch-hour Lightning Chats (aka the Mini-Advice Booth)
Looking for a quick gut-check, fresh perspective, or some bite-sized wisdom?
A handful of our featured panelists and a few special guests are offering 15-minute one-on-one “Lightning Chats” during the lunch break—think of it as your Mini Advice Booth for real-time insights on a question, challenge, or idea you’re working through.
🗓 Sign-ups open the week of the Summit
🎟 Priority goes to early bird registrants
Attendees will be able to sign-up for time with the following:
Joy Alise Davis | Imagine Black
Eliot Feenstra | Oregon’s Kitchen Table Public
Mary Li | Multnomah County
Cadine Navarro | Artist + Urban Planner
Jooyoung Oh | StudioYellow
Maria Stamas | Metabolic Energy Futures
Canyon Wildwood | PolicyLink
PM Panel and Breakout Information
Building What Comes Next: From Imagination to Institutions
This panel explores how new possibilities become lasting systems, institutions, practices, and forms of shared power. Drawing on experiences across policy, public participation, and community-led experimentation, panelists will examine what it takes to move from imagining different futures to building, governing, funding, and sustaining them. The conversation will consider what existing institutions may need to change, relinquish, or become to make room for new approaches to emerge.
Moderated by Valerie Armstrong, a strategist and systems designer with 14 years of experience spanning strategic foresight, organizational design, culture, and systems change
Panelists include:
Eliot Feenstra (he/him) - Project Manager, Oregon's Kitchen Table - Eliot is a facilitator, artist and organizer. At Oregon's Kitchen Table, he works with state agencies to create ways for people to participate in public decision-making, including through leading a youth futures summer camp. Eliot's work is informed by his background in community-engaged theatre, rural community organizing, and education.
Maria Stamas (she/her) - Metabolic Energy Futures - Maria Stamas is a climate justice lawyer and cultural strategist committed to building just, life-affirming economies and collective governance. As Project Director of the Ubuntu Commons Initiative, she advances narrative change, cultural arts activations, commons economies, and democratic power-building with frontline communities.
Canyon Wildwood (They/Them) - Senior Associate, PolicyLink - Canyon is a Senior Associate at PolicyLink working on transformative infrastructure justice. They support initiatives focused on embedding racial and economic equity into public policy, including engaging next-generation advocates and researchers in legislative reform.
PM Breakout Session
WHO POWERS THE FUTURE? Energy Futures x Design
Led by Maria Stamas
A condensed, participatory workshop exploring how energy systems shape relationships, ecologies, places, communities, and possibilities. Through a participatory futures process, people will explore energy futures and prototype new ways of sensing how energy might move through and sustain the communities of tomorrow.
Speaker Bios (Listed Alphabetically by First Name)
Cadine Navarro, Artist + Urban Planner
Cadine is a tri-cultural artist and urban planner who works with ecology, public space, and community. Her work often draws on a Japanese aesthetic and worldview, the country where Navarro was born and raised with French and American dual citizenship. The arc of her research-based practice explores regenerative models with potential to catalyze a shift in our relationship to self, each other, and nature.
Canyon Wildwood (They/them), PolicyLink
Canyon is a Senior Associate at PolicyLink working on transformative infrastructure justice. They support initiatives focused on embedding racial and economic equity into public policy, including engaging next-generation advocates and researchers in legislative reform.
Eliot Feenstra (he/him), Oregon's Kitchen Table
Eliot is a facilitator, artist and organizer. At Oregon's Kitchen Table, he works with state agencies to create ways for people to participate in public decision-making, including through leading a youth futures summer camp. Eliot's work is informed by his background in community-engaged theatre, rural community organizing, and education.
Emi Day, ONE day
Emi is an architect, strategist, and founder of One Day, a neighborhood placemaking studio focused on social impact, climate action, and community resilience. Working across civic, technology, and education sectors, she brings a human-centered approach to designing more connected cities. As the 2026 Van Evera Bailey Fellow, she is reimagining Portland's bridges as public spaces for joy and belonging.
Contact Emi: Website
Joy Alise Davis (they/her), Imagine Black
Hailing from Cincinnati, Joy Alise Davis (they/she) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Miami University and a Master of Arts in Theories of Urban Practice from Parsons School of Design. A speculative design strategist and founder of the award-winning Design + Culture Lab, Joy Alise serves as President and Executive Director of Imagine Black and Imagine Black Futures, where they work to help the Black community imagine the alternatives they deserve and build the political participation to achieve them. When not getting into good trouble, Joy Alise enjoys time with her husband, Rob, and her whippet rescue, Trudy-Ann.
Justine NakaSE, Theatre Diaspora
Justine is a theatre maker and educator whose research and creative practice focuses on race, identity, and performance. She is the Artistic Director of Theatre Diaspora, Oregon’s only professional Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company, which is committed to portraying diverse AAPI cultural, historical, and social perspectives to reach broad audiences. She currently teaches at Reed College.
Maria Stamas (She/Her), Metabolic Energy Futures
Maria Stamas is a climate justice lawyer and cultural strategist committed to building just, life-affirming economies and collective governance. As Project Director of the Ubuntu Commons Initiative, she advances narrative change, cultural arts activations, commons economies, and democratic power-building with frontline communities. Maria is developing a new initiative, Metabolic Energy Futures, to Re-story and Re-design the Electric Grid for a living earth.
Mary Li (she/my name, Asian Diaspora), Studioyellow
Mary’s professional experiences include 34 years of service at Multnomah County delivering training, facilitation, coaching, and consulting within and across County organizations to groups and individuals through a variety of learning and skill building learning experiences and methods, as well as extensive experience with and service to the non-profit sector — domestic and sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, general social justice organizing efforts, culturally specific community development and support. She is a proud Asian American woman working locally, regionally, and nationally within Asian American Indigenous Pacific Island communities and in allyship with communities of the global majority to survive and thrive.
Contact Mary: Website
MIRO Jooyoung Oh (She/They), Studioyellow
Jooyoung Oh brings 20+ years of experience in design strategy, research, and facilitation—rooted in racial justice and collective healing. She co-founded StudioYellow, a social design consultancy. Her work spans from strategic planning for non-profit organizations to community engagement. As a Process Work therapist and artist, she leads creative and therapeutic practices that support healing from family stories through Write To Heal series.
Contact: StudioYellow | Mugwort Counseling
Valerie Armstrong, Durable Projects
Valerie Armstrong is a strategist, systems designer, and founder of Durable Projects, with 14 years of experience spanning strategic foresight, organizational design, and systems change. Her work helps organizations navigate complexity, strengthen collaboration, and build more resilient ways of working. Drawing on a background in design, she brings a human-centered approach to connecting perspectives and translating ideas into meaningful change.
Contact Valerie: Website
Host & organizer
erin stevanus (she/her)
erin is an artist, strategist, and social entrepreneur committed to unlocking the potential of complex systems through foresight and speculative thinking. She runs studio b:ask, a design futures studio, collaborating with leaders across the private, public, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors to bring to life not-too-distant futures. As the founder of an innovation platform, she support changemakers in design thinking and social entrepreneurship. In her creative practice, erin writes, composes, and performs works exploring speculative futures and the mindsets needed to navigate them. You can also find her facilitating deep listening experiences and crafting live digital soundscapes through the sonic sound lab project, which invites curiosity, exploration, and rest.
2026 Radical Future(s)
Friday, October 16 • 9 AM - 4:30 PM • Portland, Oregon
Learn More at bit.ly/radicalfutures2026
