de Mesa, Alycia

Alycia de Mesa is a mixed race American of Apache and Indigenous of Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Durango, Mexico, Japanese, and British-German descent. She is a Senior Sustainability Scholar with ASU Global Institute of Sustainability & Innovation and a faculty instructor for the School of Sustainability teaching undergraduates in core sustainability topics and graduate students in sustainability leadership. Before teaching at ASU, she spent over 20 years in brand, marketing, storytelling and communications for start-ups, non-profits, and Fortune 500 companies and authored two brand books for business audiences through McGraw-Hill (New York) and Palgrave Macmillan (London). She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Human and Social Dimensions in Science and Technology at ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society. Her research interests include Indigenous and people of color futures and emerging technologies effects on POC communities.