Olivia Herneddo

As Lead Experience Designer for Community Partners at ASU, Olivia works with partners to co-design challenge-based learning experiences that are audience/discipline inclusive and prompt human creativity to leverage technologies, both proven and emerging, to respond to real-world problems that are persistent or forecasted. Olivia's expertise lies in producing high-quality hackathons, idea jams, and other experiences for the ASU community, including WP Carey and Global Futures Laboratory, as well as esteemed partners such as OpenAI, TIAA, Verizon, and Zoom. Since 2023, Olivia has served as a Specialist Advisor to QS ImpACT, where she co-founded the QS ImpACT Skills Challenge, shaping its vision, designing the instructional framework, and co-leading a multidisciplinary team of subject matter experts to deliver an engaging virtual hackathon experience for over 500 global participants. With a keen focus on co-design principles, she produces audience-focused experiences that inspire participants to envision future-focused possibilities and collaborate creatively toward those goals through principled innovation.

Additionally, Olivia is a trained interdisciplinary artist whose imagination lives at the intersection of creative technology and performance. In 2022, she directed, produced, designed and performed in Hello, World! an immersive performance for very young children featuring 360* projection design, performance and sound, debuting at the i.d.e.a. Museum in Mesa, AZ before performing an excerpt at the National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NYC. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Digital Media (Theater) from ASU's Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and a BFA in Expanded Media from the University of Kansas School of the Arts, in addition to her BA in Political Science and International Studies from Baker University. Olivia is a proud alumnus of the ASU Gammage Teaching Artist program, certified in Kennedy Center arts integration methods. Full creative portfolio available at www.xonoh.com.

Body of work:

Fall 2024

• Falling Walls Lab Arizona (F24) co-hosted by Enterprise Technology and Global Futures Laboratory
• OpenAI and Student Success Spark Challenge (F24) co-hosted by Enterprise Technology and OpenAI
• Sustainable AZ Spark Challenge: A Principled Innovation Hackathon (F24) sponsored by University College

Summer 2024 

• QS ImpACT Skills Challenge launch (as Specialist Advisor to QS ImpACT)

Spring 2024

• AI for Education Hackathon: A Principled Innovation Spark Challenge (SPR 24) sponsored by University College
• Recycling with AI Spark Challenge (SPR 24) sponsored by Girls in Tech, Google

Fall 2023

• Prompt Engineering Hackathon for Humanities (F23) sponsored by Enterprise Technology
• Fintech Collab Hack: TIAA Challenge Pitch Competition (F23) Sponsored by TIAA
• ASU ScaleU Hackathon (F23) sponsored by Realmspark

Spring 2023

• Impact Water Idea Jam (SPR 23) sponsored by Impact Water - AZ
• SuperSTEM Day (SPR 23) sponsored by Valley of the Sun - United Way, featuring AZ Cardinals

Fall 2022

• Zoom in the Metaverse Hackathon (F22) Sponsored by Zoom
• ASU Prep Roblox Game Jam (F22) sponsored by Enterprise Technology
• Digital Equity Hackathon (SPR 22) sponsored by Verizon
• Creative's Corner Chat with Gemma Langford of Overcooked Games produced and interviewed for ASU's Learning Futures