We’re building the future for collective learning and climate, economic, and social innovation

Our mission is to facilitate social learning and collaborative solution-building in novel and impactful ways. Our team has led succcessful in-person workshops in a variety of settings, and now want to bring that innovation to the digital space to scale up its application.

With our intuitive interfaces and workflow, collaborative evidence-based modeling, and skilled facilitation approaches, we strive to enhance decision making at any scale.

Fora.ai demonstrates Northeastern University’s commitment to innovation for a better future.

Our values: Going beyond simple collaboration

Representing different forms of knowledge

Participants gain a systems view to support solution-building with evidence.

Developing innovation

The collaborative nature encourages all to take initiative in sharing their ideas to create innovative solutions.

Visualizing different concerns

Participants can more effectively work towards compromise.


Leadership and team

Founding Member and Director

Moira Zellner

Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs;

Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science;

Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps and Networks

Technician

Dean Massey

Participatory Complex Systems Modeler

Founding Member and Conceptual Designer

Leilah Lyons

Program Director at National Science Foundation (NSF)


Sponsorship

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