Hi, my name is Megan Leigh Willy!
I am a Brooklyn-based Researcher, Sustainable Strategist, and Lifetime Learner. who takes a fearless approach to future-focused, ethically sustainable systems' design from a transdisciplinary & participatory design perspective.
I use design methods to investigate complex systems, navigate social hierarchies, and mobilize communities through co-creating agency, access, and awareness. I am a Transdisciplinary Design Researcher & Strategist curious about holistic well-being, participatory governance, and sustainability. My professional passion lies in projects that better facilitate the cultural overlaps and economic conversations globally.
I'm fluent in Spanish, English, and various creative software. With over a decade of experience in higher education and cooperative housing in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, I possess strong group facilitation and leadership skills. I'm also an enthusiast stilt-walker, long-distance runner, avid urban cyclist, and proud auntie. Growing up as a military brat, I've lived in over 20 different cities, which has shaped both my life and work.
Please see examples of my work & more about my career journey in the links below...
Specifics about my work experiences & career journey.
Research & strategy with communities and cooperative organizations to facilitate more intentional connections with employers, to economic opportunities, and to sustainable high quality of life.
Research & strategy that leverages the knowledge and experience held within our body to create deeper connections to ourselves to the shared experience.
Curriculum developed for undergraduate Strategic Design & Management sophomore and senior students in the BBA program at Parsons School of Design.
Collage featured on this page: Some of my favorite places & spaces
From top to bottom, clockwise: Rocky beaches of the Bio-Bio Region in Chile, the breakfast nook of my intentional community, Playa Mermejitas in Mazunte, México, little boats in Tumbes Chile, tattoos with Diego on journeys through MX, stilt-walking at my 39th birthday party in Brooklyn, NY.
Curious to see more? These 2 links will take you to visual work published by me for NASA and as an independent animator between 2007-2011.