Summary
Storying Just Futures is a global humanities initiative that empowers young people to imagine, articulate, and co-design the futures they desire. Developed through more than a decade of humanities and sustainability work at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, the initiative gives participants the tools, language, and confidence to claim agency in shaping a just, healthy, and resilient future.
Through workshops, lectures, creative storytelling, and futures-thinking methodologies co-developed with UNESCO BRIDGES, Storying Just Futures provides an “anticipatory toolbox” of practical skills for imagining future scenarios: from evaluating what justice looks like across communities to expressing those visions through creative forms, such as writing, performance, dance, and drama. By invoking a humanities approach, participants learn to connect personal experience to global challenges, turning individual insight into tangible pathways for action.
Across all its efforts, Storying Just Futures advances one central goal: to equip young people with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to take agency over the future they desire and deserve.
Fellows and Finalists
- Neha Chhetri
- Kimia Lavasani
- Trevor Morris
- Arina Melkozernova
- Mohadeseh Mousazadeh Miandehi
- Jillian Coronato
- Gad Sezirahiga
- In Soo Kim
- Golda Marlesa Elgavia Sooai
- Ema Santos Quiroz
- Laura Randall
- Courtney J Reed
- Margaret Chilinda
- Alexis Reed
- Zhiqiang Liu
Personnel
Timeline
Spring 2025-2027