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About Flourishing
Systems Foundation

We catalyze the emergence of life-aligned systems through translational research, transformative education, venture incubation, and community co-creation.

Why Flourishing?

We focus on flourishing because it names what lies beyond survival, beyond extraction, and beyond optimization. In a world shaped by entangled crises and accelerating complexity, flourishing offers a generative horizon—a way of orienting toward life, not just managing its breakdown.

 

Unlike traditional metrics of progress, flourishing invites us to ask deeper questions: What sustains vitality across time and scale? What kinds of systems allow people, communities, and ecologies to co-evolve in mutual support?

 

Our work explores these questions through research, education, and incubation—helping to reveal, seed, and support the living systems that make lasting wellbeing possible. In a time when so much is unraveling, flourishing offers a field of possibility worth moving toward.

Core Team

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Mingzhu He

Founder & Executive Director

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Carson Kelly

Board Member

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Lauren Hebert

Founder & Board Member

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Arlene Pineda

Advisor

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