Gabrielle Micheletti

Gabrielle Micheletti was born in Rhode Island, with lived roots in Milano-Torino and Miami. Ze comes from a family of entrepreneurs, stylists, metalsmiths, jewelry makers, chefs, musicians, and sartoria. Ze studied humanities + languages before earning a B.A. in Philosophy, with continued study in Experience (UX) Research and Strategy via Designlab + Emotional Design and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) via the Interaction Design Foundation. As an oscillating ENFP/INFP, ze likes to explore contextually meaningful, cultural, and emotional symbolisms within everyday life. Ze focuses on design for experience in development, and in the global, decentralized technology community. Ze has collaborated with diverse, distributed computing projects, and in creative studios like Pininfarina (Mahindra), converging physical with virtual, invisible with tangible, and heritage with the future. As a hobbyist, ze is interested in paradigms like co-design / co-build and creative computation. Ze is passionate about deep craftsmanship married with design for well-being, especially within marginalized communities and emergent locales. Ze is currently involved in working exploration of core threads such as social + economic empowerment, re/decentralization, co-liberation, and open-source for equity, sustainability + inclusion. Presently: ConsenSys Grants and Devcon V Scholar with the Ethereum Foundation.