An Xiao Mina

An Xiao Mina is a futures thinker, creative consultant, and coach, with a decade in nonprofit executive and board experience. Her mission is building a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world through better futures in work, technology, and society, and she’s coached and trained hundreds of global media and nonprofit leaders in the fields of product, program, strategy and operations. Co-founder of Five and Nine Futures Lab and producer for their podcast on magic, work and economic justice, Mina has written for publications like Hyperallergic, Fast Company, The Atlantic, and Nieman Lab. Her creative practice has been exhibited in spaces like the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Brooklyn Museum, and she is a Senior Civic Media Fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and 2024 Fellow at the Sundance Trans Possibilities Intensive. She serves on the boards of the Processing Foundation and the News Product Alliance. Her newest book, the Hanmoji Handbook, is co-authored for MITeen Press about emoji and the Chinese language. She is a certified foresight strategist and trauma-informed yin yoga teacher.