With a long-term commitment to innovative systems change, Laura Nissen has worked with futures practice and lenses throughout her career. She credits a futures lens with the extended and continuous success of the Reclaiming Futures initiative and its ability to energize and provide architecture to a complex and interdisciplinary juvenile justice reform effort. She’s a former Dean and  current Professor of  Social Work at Portland State. She’s the first inaugural Presidential Futures Fellow at Portland State. Foresight practitioner and a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Future, and has spoken on futures thinking in social work and social change at the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work, and in numerous social work education, and community spaces.

See more of Laura's work here:
Social Work Futures Blog
Portland State University Futures Collaboratory