Envisioning equitable futures

The Center for Creative Imagination envisions and enacts a future in which all people can reach their potential, with equal protection of rights and access to knowledge, resources, and human care and kindness.

A passion for making the healthy choice the easy choice

Working across structures, systems, and societies, we understand that humans build the systems which enable or constrain all of our lives. By expanding our imaginations, centering an ethics of care, and supporting creative action, we can build systems and structures to support a world which values our shared humanity.

Creative visioning

Participatory and consensus-building methods for visioning change.

Tackling complex questions

Combining systems and causal thinking approaches to work on long-term solutions.

Understanding the problem

Conducting quantitative and qualitative research to understand complex problems affecting our world.

Values clarification

Understanding that sustainable action requires an ongoing examination and commitment to values which center equity and humanity.

Strategic change

Working across levels of communities and societies to build and sustain action.

Research to action

Using the lessons of the past to create a better future.

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Our workstreams

Within a broader scope of advancing creative solutions to equity and health and wellbeing, we are advancing the following workstreams and welcome collaboration towards these goals.

Repair and Reparations

Envisioning and actioning repair for intergenerational and present harms that are rooted in intersecting forms of structural violence such as racial capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy.

Community-Rooted Child Protection

Generating solutions to prominent child protection issues which protect children’s rights to agency and to engage in a safe world which does not compromise on the rights of all people to basic privacy.

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“…if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.”

Toni Morrison

Writer and educator

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