Cyndi Coon sees data not as numbers—but as colors, sounds, and stories waiting to be shaped. As an applied futurist, artist, and strategic advisor, Cyndi leads the AI Worldbuilding STEAM Team with a focus on creative technologies and ethical innovation.
Cyndi’s workshops blend speculative fiction, artificial intelligence, and design thinking. Students learn to co-create with AI tools like ChatGPT and Suno, crafting new worlds while wrestling with real questions: What futures are we building? Who gets to decide? How can we do it better?
“AI is a medium—like paint or clay,” Cyndi says. “It’s what we make of it that matters.” Her approach emphasizes collaboration, ethics, and agency, equipping students to become visionary changemakers in a rapidly evolving digital world.
About the AI Worldbuilding STEAM Team:
Cyndi’s team dives into the creative potential of AI, exploring how new tools can be used for speculative storytelling, sound design, and planetary futures. This experience offers hands-on learning with an eye toward justice, imagination, and innovation.
Interested in joining Cyndi’s STEAM Team? Click HERE to learn more.
