Alycia de Mesa
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Mail code: 6312Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentHuman and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology
College of Global Futures
Alycia de Mesa's lineage is as a fourth generation of Arizona and a mixed-race American of Mexican, Apache of Chihuahua, MX, Japanese, British-German descent. She is the Assistant Director of Digital Equity & Social Impact at ASU Enterprise Technology, a Senior Global Futures Scholar for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, School of Sustainability faculty instructor, and doctoral student with College of Global Futures. Alycia is a UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab expert.
Her 25-year professional focus has been to help companies, organizations, and individual people succeed with brand development, marketing, communications, and storytelling for engaged outcomes. As a national and international brand and marketing advisor, she has worked with all sizes of business from Fortune 100 to start-ups as well as nonprofits and social ventures. She is a public speaker for corporations, non-profit, academic, and community organizations.
Alycia is the faculty instructor of communications & storytelling for ASU School of Sustainability graduate programs in Sustainability Leadership and teaches undergraduate courses in core sustainability topics. Alycia also served as an adjunct professor of marketing and entrepreneurship for business undergraduates at Benedictine University in Mesa from 2015-2020. At ASU, she has served as Associate Director of ASU Project Humanities initiative and a Research Professional for the NSF funded ASU ADVANCE program, supporting 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 faculty fellows cohorts.
Alycia is currently pursuing her Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology (PhD) doctoral degree from ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society, where she is exploring the ethics and boundaries of Indigenous storytelling and counter mapping in context to emerging technologies and smartphones for traditional ecological knowledge restoration within borderlands Indigenous communities.
- Ph.D. doctoral student. Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, School for the Future of Innovation In Society, Arizona State University
- B.A. Political Science; minor: French Literature, Arizona State University (with full music scholarship for harp performance)
Equitable futures, Indigenous theory, Indigenous research methodologies, emerging technologies, Indigenous data sovereignty, counter mapping, storytelling, community based participatory research, traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous food sovereignty, sustainable global futures, BIPOC urban resilience, sustainability futures
EarthDiver Lab, College of Global Futures
Journals
Scheduled for print: de Mesa, A. (TBD) From Responsible Innovation to Interrelational Technology Development. IEEE Xplore (volume, edition, pages pending).
Business Books
2009
de Mesa, A. 2009. Brand Avatar: Translating Virtual World Branding into Real World Success. Palgrave-Macmillan. London, UK. ISBN: 978-0230201798.
2003
Perry, A. and D. Wisnom III. 2003. Before the Brand: Creating the Unique DNA of an Enduring Brand Identity. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN: 978-0071393096.
Video
Nelson, M. K., Smith, B., Gazing Wolf, J., de Mesa, A., & Diaz-Reyes, T. (2022). Indigenizing Science: Listening to Native Graduate Students at ASU. Vimeo. [Film Genre: Documentary] Graduate student researcher and interviewee.
Chi'chil Counter Mapping Project, Decolonial and Indigenous Data Sovereignty approaches to digital storytelling and counter mapping of Emory Oak acorn (chi'chil in Western Apache); Funded by ASU Humanities Lab Mini-Amplifier grant, Beyond The Lab, Seize the Moment grant (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
ASU ADVANCE Fellowship, researcher and contributor to faculty wellness and wellbeing resources at ASU; NSF funded grant through College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2022)
Amplifying Latina Voices: Street Designs for Livability, community based participatory research (CBPR) approach to imagining community futures in West Mesa, Arizona. Funded by ASU Changemaker Challenge Grant (2021)
ASU ADVANCE Fellowship, researcher and contributor to mentoring best practices for women and underrepresented faculty; NSF funded grant through College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (2021)
Invited Talks & Presentations:
- Cultivating Intergenerational Resilience in Urban Communities, Keynote Speaker, May 2023, International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Mini Conference at ASU, Tempe, AZ
- Chi’chil Counter Mapping Project, Speaker, Nov 2022, Indigenous Mapping Collective Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From Responsible Innovation to Interrelational Technology Development, Conference Paper Presenter, IEEE International Symposium on Technology & Society (ISTAS) 2022, Hong Kong
- A Roundtable on the Politics and Relationality of Knowledge Integration, Session Speaker, Oct 2022, Toronto Conference on Earth Systems Governance, University of Toronto, CA
- Rights of Nature, Moderator, Aug 2022, Project Humanities, Tempe, AZ
- Leadership Development: Storytelling & Presenting, Guest Speaker, Jul 2022, Okland Construction, Tempe, AZ
- Learning Lab: Sustainability & ESG, Panelist, Jul 2022, HNI Furnishings, Virtual
- Women & Storytelling, Guest Speaker, Jul 2022, Okland Construction, Tempe, AZ
- Chi’chil Counter Mapping Project, Presenter, Apr 2022, ASU Humanities Lab Earth Week, Tempe, AZ
- MMIWG2S: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit, Moderator, Apr 2022, Project Humanities, Tempe, AZ
- Harnessing Sustainability & Storytelling, Guest Speaker, Apr 2022, AllSteel
- Black & Indigenous Food Sovereignty and Farming as Resistance, Moderator, Mar 2022, Project Humanities
- Enhancing Inclusive Knowledge & Participatory Design Approaches, Speaker, ASU Public Interest Technologies (PIT) Colloquium
- Sustainable Tech Insight Talk, Moderator, Dec 2021, Hub.Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- Power of Storytelling, Guest Speaker, Oct 2021, ASU Work +
- Storytelling for 3D Digital Applications, Guest Facilitator and Speaker, Apr 2021, StrongTIES, STEAM & Global Citizenship Mentoring Program for Black & Brown high school girls nationwide Coded Bias Film Discussion, Panel Facilitator and Speaker, Mar 2021, Project Humanities Indigenous Storytelling for Social Change in the Technological Age, Jan 2021, EYDI/Indigenous Pedagogy Virtual Academy
- Innovation Policy & AI Careers for People of Color, Nov 2020, ASU
- Environmental Justice: Indigenous Communities, Panel Speaker, Nov 2020, ASU Project Humanities
- Power of Storytelling & Cross Cultural Communication, Jun 2020, Intel Corp.
- The Art & Science of Sustainability Storytelling, Feb 2020, Greenbiz Conference, AZ
- Artificial General Intelligence: Normative Values Risks, Dec 2019, ASU
- Artificial General Intelligence: Case Study for STIR Method Research, Dec 2019, ASU
- Social Impact & Storytelling: A Tale of What Could Be, Apr 2019, Navajo Sustainability Symposium, Flagstaff, AZ
- Sustainability Storytelling: Six Year-Old Brain Model, Mar 2019, GreenBiz Conference, AZ
Courses
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOS 484 | Internship |
| SOS 484 | Internship |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| SFS 484 | Internship |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SFS 484 | Internship |
| SOS 111 | Sustainable Cities |
| SOS 110 | Sustainable World |
| SOS 484 | Internship |
| SOS 310 | Equity, Justice & Sustainblity |
| SOS 310 | Equity, Justice & Sustainblity |
| SOS 310 | Equity, Justice & Sustainblity |
| SOS 310 | Equity, Justice & Sustainblity |
| SOS 111 | Sustainable Cities |
| SOS 110 | Sustainable World |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 508 | Immersive Experience |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
| EMS 524 | Sustainability Storytelling |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOS 232 | Prof Skills in Sustainability |
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
| EMS 509 | Comm & Sustainability II |
| EMS 513 | Comm & Sustainability III |
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOS 110 | Sustainable World |
| SOS 110 | Sustainable World |
| SOS 110 | Sustainable World |
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
| SOS 311 | Future Thinking and Strategies |
| SOS 110 | Sustainable World |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 509 | Comm & Sustainability II |
| EMS 504 | Comm & Sustainability I |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 504 | Comm & Sustainability I |
| EMS 513 | Comm & Sustainability III |
2019 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 509 | Comm & Sustainability II |
2019 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 513 | Comm & Sustainability III |
| EMS 504 | Comm & Sustainability I |
2018 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 509 | Comm & Sustainability II |
| EMS 513 | Comm & Sustainability III |
2018 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 509 | Comm & Sustainability II |
2018 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| EMS 504 | Comm & Sustainability I |
| EMS 504 | Comm & Sustainability I |
- Humanities Lab, Beyond the Lab Outcome and Seize the Moment Grant Winner, "Chi'chil Counter Mapping Project," Spring 2023
- UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Expert appointment, Nov 2022
- Cultural Conservancy, Travel Award, November 2022
- American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) Lighting the Pathway Fellow, 2022-2024
- Humanities Lab Amplifier Mini-Grant Winner, "Chi'chil Counter Mapping Project," Spring 2022
- ASU Changemaker Challenge Grant Award Winner, “Amplifying Latina Voices: Street Designs for Livability in Mesa,” June 2021
- ASU Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) Innovation Fellowship Volunteer Award, April 2021
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Travel Award, October 2020
- ASU Sun Award, October 2020
- Vice President & Member, ASU American Indian Graduate Student Association (AIGSA)
- Member, ASU Women’s Council of Indigenous Doctoral Scholars (WCIDS)
- Member, American Indian Society of Science and Engineering (AISES)
- Member, Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
- Member, Mujeres Activas En Letras Y Cambio Social (MALCS)
- Member, ASU Faculty Women of Color Caucus (FWOCC)
- Member, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Executive Masters of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) & Masters of Sustainability Leadership (MSL) program committee member (2020-present)
- Executive Masters of Sustainability Leadership (EMSL) 2018-2021 cohorts capstone mentoring
- Sustainability Opportunity Professional Certificate - SOS & WP Carey School of Business | 2019 – 2021, Curriculum design & teaching, Storytelling & Communications for Sustainability Professionals
Synergistic Activities:
- BIPOC and Indigenous Sustainability Leadership panels creation and symposium design for Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership immersive for graduate students (2021)
- Co-instructor, facilitator, curriculum designer for Executive Master of Sustainability Leadership keystone program course for capstone and immersive experience (2020-2021)
Assistant Director, Digital Equity & Social Impact, Sept 2022 – present, ASU Enterprise Technology
Associate Director, Project Humanities, Aug 2021 – Sept 2022, ASU Project Humanities Initiative, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Research Professional, ASU ADVANCE Initiative, Jan 2021 - Jun 2022, National Science Foundation Funded Grant, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Faculty Instructor, School of Sustainability, Aug 2015 – present, Graduate and Undergraduate Sustainability Programs
Benedictine University | Mesa, AZ Adjunct Professor, Business Department, Aug 2015 – Dec 2019, Undergraduate Business Administration Program: Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
Academic Service
- External Panel Reviewer, ASU Faculty Women Association, Mentoring Pilot Program, Spring 2023
- Vice President, American Indian Graduate Student Association, 2022-2023
- IEEE Xplore Journal Articles Reviewer, 2022
- Non-Tenured Faculty Committee, ASU School of Sustainability, 2021-2022
- SOS Strategic Visioning, ASU School of Sustainability, 2021-2022
- AISES Chapter 3 Conference Session Moderator, April 2021
- Hispanic Community Initiative Working Group, ASU, 2021
- EMSL & MSL Program Committee, ASU School of Sustainability, 2020 - present
- President Elect, ASU Chicano/Latino Faculty & Staff Association, 2020-2021
- Judge, 2020 Arizona Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
Community Service
- Executive Search Committee Member, City of Mesa, Arizona Museum of Natural History, Spring 2021, Spring 2022
- Board Member, The Millet House Art Gallery & Community Space, Mesa, AZ, 2021 – ongoing
- Chair and member, Mayor appointed City of Mesa Museum & Cultural Advisory Board, Mesa, AZ, 2018 – 2022
- Volunteer, Arizona American Indian Arts Festival, Performer Coordination, Scottsdale, AZ, 2021
- Architect & Volunteer, San Carlos Apache Tribe Social Services & Salvation Army, Coordination & Delivery of Baby, Kids, Elder Items, San Carlos, AZ, 2021
- Interview Committee Member, Arizona Museum of Natural History Executive Director Job Search Mesa, AZ, 2021
- Secretary 2020 Elections & Alternate Delegate to NAACP National Conference, East Valley NAACP Nominating Committee, 2020
- Award Panel Judge, Creative Economy Awards, City of Mesa, 2020
- Judge, SEED SPOT: National high school competition for sustainability and social impact entrepreneurship, 2019
- Community Steward, Little Free Library, Mesa, AZ, 2019 – ongoing
- Volunteer, Emaho Foundation for Tibetan Studies & Culture, Phoenix, AZ, 2016 – 2018
- Board Member, Mindfulness First, Scottsdale, AZ, 2016 – 2017