American Future
Helping everyday people imagine and believe in a future that is worth the crap we’ll have to wade through to get there.
Beneath the multi-crises of our time, we have a fundamental crisis of imagination. American Future catalyzes our creative vision, first with self-interest, and then connects it to community and civic engagement where we begin working together.
The ultimate mission for American Future is to co-create a brighter and better future for ourselves, one that is not currently conceived of by society. Over three years, American Future will grow through five phases.
2023 – Pilot: interview 35+ people to develop an interview process and materials
2024 – Expand: Create an app-based portal to collect stories, continue to expand interviews via partnerships, collect demographic information for accurate representative sampling, identify researchers and storytellers to catalog stories into themes, and create online content for sharing.
2024 - 2025 – Sensemaking: Begin curation of an overview of the possible future narrative, review with participants and media, draft an outline for a documentary and book and secure funding for both.
2025 – Community-Building: Engage with partners and participants with preview stories, recruit more participants, produce the documentary and write the book.
2026 – Promote: Tying into the America 250th celebration, release the doc and book, host a media tour, and continue adding participants to the project.
This project is grounded in what Americans want for their own lives, weaved together to create a new American Future that is worth the crap we’ll have to wade through to create it. The information gathered can be used by futurists, media, policy writers, the entertainment industry et al, to work in concert with the American people. Or they can continue to use conflict profiteers to destroy our sense of human decency. American Future as a project allows all to profit from our togetherness in co-creation rather than continuing to feed our current dystopian future.
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Project Director Bio:
Debilyn Molineaux is a political mystic, storyteller, collaborator, and connector. Her life’s purpose is to bring about a thriving, just, and healthy democratic republic in the United States. The latest expression of her work is launching in late 2023 as American Future, noting that Imagination lays the tracks for the reality train to follow. Unleashing Americans' imagination about the future we want is the antidote to the malaise left by the conflict profiteers.
As a pioneer in the democracy ecosystem, Debilyn also offers consulting services to nonprofits, philanthropists, corporate leaders, and foundations. She has co-founded or led initiatives over her 20+ year career to reach millions of Americans. Past leadership roles include Bridge Alliance, Citizen Connect, The Fulcrum, Living Room Conversations, Coffee Party USA, and various board roles.
Empowering her fellow citizens and scaling the work of her fellow leaders continues to be Debilyn’s passion and mission. Her actions help nurture and drive the large-scale collective action that moves our democracy forward.