Giulia Genna

Giulia is a a Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Rob Walton College of Global Futures, where she joined the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Teachers Academy and the Lifelong Learning team. Giulia’s work merges the scholarships of Feminist theories, Development theories, and Science and Technology to analyze methods for agency building, especially among teenage girls, and explore how the implementation of education technologies can facilitate the expansion of girls’ career aspirations and potentially alleviate economic and social inequalities. Giulia has designed and developed a gamified learning platform for financial literacy which has been implemented successfully in her research. The platform, which has won the eSeed Grant Challenge for the Social Innovation Startup pitching competition, has been designed implementing future scenarios frameworks to encourage high school students to explore potential financial challenges and pathways. She has presented her work at multiple international conferences, and she has delivered guest lectures on gender and technology, development, sustainability, and political science. She has been invited to participate on panels focusing on agency, capabilities, and technology for social good.

Giulia has experience teaching high school and college level courses in Science and Technology in Society, Future, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability and Innovation.

Originally from Italy, Giulia holds a BA in International Relations and Diplomacy from Long Island University, and a MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD in Innovation in Global Development from the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU.