Mia Birdsong

Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder, author, and facilitator who steadily engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new visions of American life. In her 2020 book, How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community, Birdsong maps swaths of community life and points us toward the promise of our collective vitality. Birdsong is the founding executive director of Next River, an institute for practicing the future. Next River moves conversations, culture, and resources to nourish the people and communities whose ways of being, doing, and relating can move us toward a liberated future. Birdsong is senior fellow of the Economic Security Project, a Future Good fellow of the Institute for the Future, and an inaugural Ascend fellow of The Aspen Institute.