Edward Quevedo

Edward Quevedo (Yaqui Nation) is Professor of Practice in The School of Complex Adaptive Systems (SCAS), within the College of Global Futures.  He also holds an appointment to ASU's Decision Theater. 

Edward teaches courses in Indigenous governance, First Nations Wisdom, complexity science, Aboriginal foresight and visioning, and whole systems dynamics.  In addition to his ASU responsibilities, Edward directs the Regenerative Design Program within The Foresight Lab, a  global diplomacy and culture transformation creative agency, and international civil rights organization, composed of educators, policy innovators, international diplomats, cultural entrepreneurs, regenerative innovation practitioners, and non-profit guides working globally to build an Indigenous, Regenerative Economy. 

A researcher, professor, and credentialed diplomat, Edward’s work has spanned the globe pursuing solutions to human society’s most wickedly complex socio-cultural, ecological, and economic challenges. Using the tools of systemics, regenerative statecraft, and complexity science, his work at ASU and within The Foresight Lab brings the practice of peace, truth, and reconciliation to communities throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia, and beyond.  His professional calling is to labor to reintroduce humanity, at scale, to its Indigeneity, and in so doing to build a global economy that is just, verdant, and inclusive, rather than predatory, extractive, and destructive.   

The Foresight Lab’s operations and impact reach across its Bureaus in The Americas and Europe.  This reach now extends to SCAS, relying also on The Lab's formal alliance with Designworks, A BMW Group Company. Designworks is BMW Group’s wholly owned design, styling, engineering, and foresight/strategy house, employing 184 designers, stylists, engineers, and graphic artists across bureaus in Munich, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.  Through this alliance, and its continuing work with BMW Group AG and The BMW Foundation (The Herbert Quandt Stiftung), The Foresight Lab deploys diplomacy, cultural transformation, and civil rights commissions at scale around the world.

Edward’s work at The Lab and within ASU includes guiding and advising some of the world’s most iconic and respected companies, philanthropies, institutions of higher learning, and civil society organizations.  These include: Genentech, Inc., BMW Group AG, Mercedes-Benz USA, Inc., E&J Gallo Wineries, Suez Environnment Cie., Fetzer Vineyards, RaboBank, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Barclays Bank; The University of British Columbia, The University of California System, and The Universities of South Carolina and Wisconsin; and Tulane University; Omidyar Network, The Open Society Foundations, The World Bank, The United Nations Development Program; Potlikker Capital, The Institute for Educational Leadership, The Fair Food Network, Kiss the Ground, Edutopia (The George Lucas Educational Foundation); the Ministries of Environment and Spatial Planning in the Kingdom of The Netherlands, and Bavaria, Germany; the Province of British Columbia; the National Governments of Kenya and Namibia; The Cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam; and the Cities of London, Singapore, Amsterdam, Austin (TX), Lowell (MA), Santa Cruz, Capitola, Novato (CA), and Fort Collins (CO), amongst many others.

Edward is also a civil rights attorney and adept social justice practitioner, and has in those capacities repeatedly been called upon to lead healing interventions in communities riven by predatory police killings.  He has led these regenerative justice efforts in cities across the United States, including in Ferguson, MO, Charleston, SC, Philadelphia, PA, Minneapolis, MN, and Atlanta, GA, amongst many other communities (in Foresight Lab parlance, migrating from Warriors to Guardians).  This work encompasses reimagining policing and public safety, transforming policing psychology, police/community relations, deployment frameworks, budgeting models, police academy curricula, and intervention models to shift resources away from conventional command and control policing to a community-centric, trauma-informed, modality.  The Lab has also ideated, designed, and led the implementation of Community-Led Policing Oversight Boards in over 20 cities across North and South America, and Europe.

Edward holds the A.B. in Philosophy from UCLA, and the Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law and the Boalt Hall Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. He is admitted to practice law in California and before the European Court of Justice. 

Edward divides his time between the Tempe Campus of ASU and The Redwood Coast of Northern California.  He continues to learn from his Children, his Partner Jenniffer Miranda, and  from from the communities he is privileged to serve.