Jessica (JFlo) Flaherty

CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT CONSULTANT

Jessica Flaherty is an experienced and innovative program, intervention, and research designer whose career at the intersection of public health and social work spans three decades. She uses her profound belief in the principles of community building, youth development, harm reduction, adult learning theory, and anti-racism praxis to do the work of imagining new arrangements where queer world making might be possible. Jessica is a long-time fangirl and accomplice in some of DS4SI’s early work. She is delighted by this opportunity to work and play with the studio and the emergent framework put forward in their book, Ideas Arrangements Effects: System Thinking and Social Justice.