Brianna Goodlin

As someone driven by curiosity (and powered by ADHD), Brianna has spent her life asking, "why"?

While this got her into trouble as a child, as an adult it has become her superpower. She is driven by a desire to understand and she uses that to find creative solutions in unexpected places. She uses empathy and insight to catalyze innovation and uncover opportunities, always seeking to redefine what is possible.

She specializes in innovation and growth strategy, ideation design, facilitation, human-centered design, design sprints, ethnography, insight development and synthesis, qualitative research & analysis, and graphic design and visualization. She has worked in a variety of industries and fields, driving innovation and building the capabilities for change. Her work has been driven by a passion for helping people navigate seemingly intractable problems and finding solutions in unexpected places. 

This also animates her personal life, where she spends time working in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict space, as well as various causes including addressing food insecurity, alleviating poverty, combatting antisemitism and increasing access to education and opportunity. She was the chair of IPF Atid's Boston and Chicago chapters and was the inaugural Co-chair of IPF Atid's Charles Bronfman Convener's Summit.

As someone who grew up in poverty, she has spent much of her life navigating the minefield that comes from being in privileged spaces with a low-income background, a perspective she tries to bring into any spaces she inhabits. 

Brianna is currently working on a Masters in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford studying how AI can be used to further equality in education.

She has an MBA from The University of Cambridge where she studied innovation, entrepreneurship and strategy.

Her Bachelor's degree is from Harvard University where she concentrated in Social Studies, focusing on Genocide and Ethnic Conflict in Modern Europe, with a minor in Jewish Studies. Her undergraduate thesis "An Underestimated Threat: Rising Antisemitism in Contemporary Denmark" explored modern Danish antisemitism through a variety of sociological, psychological and historical lenses.