I love my home state of Texas, but am drawn to its deeply global culture and complexities. Austin hosts the flagship University of Texas campus, government, entrepreneurship, new professional soccer team, mixed-density infrastructure, live music, nature-based urbanism, and Historically Black College / University. It is therefore the perfect base from which to grow new ideas, and can be a fabulous model for innovation.

For starters: there's cybersecurity for technology, physical security around bodily harm, physical safety for transportation, operational security for managing information, geopolitical security for political risks. There are many more dimensions. I'm interested in how these all play together or tear apart.

Healing is about using this technology inflection point as an opportunity to improve justice, health, and memory for diverse groups.

Capital Factory can set the tone and sustain the spark to improve all of these.

In academia I studied geopolitical security for cities, physical security for women's mobility, and data fragmentation for disaster simulations and transportation investment decision-making on three continents. These projects were themselves the products of external global partnerships, and suffered from their own data fragmentation! Now I want to bring these learnings home to Austin.

Startups and policy increasingly shape our world, and Capital Factory pulls it all together. It's the center of gravity for entrepreneurship in Texas, but stepping up into national arenas and global networks. Now is the time to make sure that our old ways of operating don't slow us down: we want our friction in big exciting problems rather than operational tedium.

I look forward to exploring possible collaborations with you all, and to representing your work in the appropriate tone and vocabulary for each stakeholder across diverse industries and geographies.

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