Founding team
Bryan Kam
Writer and Engineer for the British Library
London
Bryan Kam is a writer and podcaster who is writing a book of practical philosophy called Neither/Nor. A Princeton graduate, he has hosted salons, intellectual discussions, and a book club both online and live in London for more than a decade. He has worked in technology in media, fintech, and now works for the British Library.
Catherine Woodiwiss
Experience Designer & Journalist
Austin
Catherine is a public designer and researcher, exploring human relationships within collective frameworks like money, power, loss, healing, and identity. Catherine has spent the last 10 years building and facilitating design methodologies for civic, corporate, education, and religious stakeholders, helping others creatively apply design processes to promote social wellbeing.
Denise Dicks
Teacher, Photographer, researcher
Portland
Denise Dicks received her MFA in Creating Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University. After a career in student-facing roles in the US and abroad, she returned to school to focus on accessibility and user experience research. In 2023, she received her MS in Information from the University of Texas at Austin. A photographer and alternative print maker, she is interested in the intersection of art and science.
Isabela Granic
Developmental Psychologist, Teacher, Writer
Toronto
With a PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Toronto, Dr. Granic brings two decades of research expertise to her roles as Industry Professor at McMaster University and Director of the GEMH lab. Her groundbreaking work on digital play and mental health has been featured in Time Magazine, Scientific American, and The Wall Street Journal. Drawing from both science and wisdom traditions, she creates spaces where young people develop the social and emotional capacities needed for thriving adulthood.
Kevin Bowers
Teacher & Musician
Kingston
Kevin has had the good fortune of being a teacher for over 25 years. Early in that journey he noted that the very things that make for a rich life make for good teaching. A skill in creating interesting experiences, an open mind, community building, looking at the world in interesting ways, considered and critical thought, creativity, and empathy are all fundamental goals of teaching and living.
Luke Coles
Teacher, High School Principal, Life Coach
Toronto
Luke Coles served as a teacher and Vice Principal at The Sterling Hall School for Boys in Toronto before becoming Founding Principal of Blyth Academy, a co-ed high school. He has extensive experience working with youth across diverse settings: classrooms, international tennis courts, wilderness expeditions, and as a life coach both virtually and in-person. Coles writes and presents widely on youth "stuckness" and develops strategies to help young people discover purpose and direction.
Rick Benger
Community Builder & Writer
Berlin
Rick makes spaces and experiences that help people bond through play. He is the co-founder of Medley Berlin, an experiment in communal space for creative expression and belonging. He launched and hosted Laneway Learning in Sydney, a community which turned cafés into classrooms. And he is the creator of Once upon a Pancake, a series of kids activity books which make reading and writing fun.
Creative consciousness, “keeps alive the power to experience the common world in its fullness.”
Olena Bulygina
Researcher & Experience Designer
London
Olena is coming from Human-Computer Interaction, mix of consulting and academia, design and art. She is a serial founder and educator. She has launched a servide design agency that specialises on is applying systemic design towards wicked problems, and is a director for an impactful charity Zeilen Van Vrijheid, sending ambulances to Ukraine and shaping the humanitarian landscape there.
In conversation
At the Liminal Post you'll find an ongoing
interview series with the whole team.
“We'll model a way of collaboration, so young people can create the seeds of projects that make a real impact in the world.”
Isabela Granic
“A creative posture in your life, as a practice, gives you agency to see beauty and truth and goodness about.”
Kevin Bowers
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