DIANA AYTON-SHENKER
DIANA AYTON-SHENKER
戴安娜·艾顿-辛克是《列奥纳多》／ISAST（国际艺术、科学、技术协会）的首席执行官兼总裁；亚利桑那州立大学—《列奥纳多》倡议项目的执行董事；亚利桑那州立大学实践教授（社会创新未来学院；艺术、媒体与工程学院）。戴安娜出版了四本著作，包括《新全球议程》和《通巴拉莱卡：诗集》；她与新学院大学 XReality 中心以及艺术家威廉·T·艾顿——她的丈夫，也是她 30 多年的创意伴侣——合作创作了《新巴别塔》，一个（位于纽约市联合广场公园的）10 层楼高的增强现实公共艺术装置。他们的增强现实艺术雕塑《新世界城》获得了由“2112基金会”颁发的2020年度“远见奖”，也是麻省理工学院出版社和《列奥纳多》发表的第一件增强现实艺术作品。他们的数字装置《星际虚拟现实可持续的未来》和《战情中心虚拟现实》分别在埃斯普隆塞达艺术与文化学院（巴塞罗那）和奥地利电子艺术节（林茨）展出。
作为“快进基金”的创始人和“全球动力”的首席执行官，戴安娜获得了比尔·克林顿总统的嘉奖，被评为“改变世界的 25 位杰出女性”（《纽约佳贸》），并入选“非营利管理领域的 31 位鼓舞人心的女性”（北卡罗来纳大学）。她是首届“全球催化剂”的高级研究员（新学院）、纳扎里安常驻社会创新者（沃顿商学院）、慈善风险投资高级研究员（巴德学院），并曾在人权观察、PEN（诗人、散文家、小说家）、美慈和联合国工作。此外，她还在哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、哥伦比亚大学、宾夕法尼亚大学任教，并在亚利桑那州立大学、新学院、巴德学院、巴黎美国大学和纽约市立大学亨特学院任教，她在这里指导了第一个美国本科生的人权项目。戴安娜会说四种语言，并拥有法学硕士学位（国际人权法，埃塞克斯大学法学院）和荣誉学士学位（国际关系，宾夕法尼亚大学）。她有幸担任亚利桑那州立大学的高级全球未来科学家和星际学者。
Diana Ayton-Shenker is CEO and President of Leonardo/ISAST (International Society of Arts, Science, Technology); Executive Director, ASU-Leonardo Initiative; and ASU Professor of Practice ( School for the Future of Innovation in Society; and School of Arts, Media, & Engineering). Diana has published four books, including A New Global Agenda, and Tumbalalaika: A Collection of Poems; and produced New Babel, a 10-story tall A.R. public art installation (Union Square Park, NYC) collaborating with The New School XReality Center and artist William T. Ayton, her creative partner-husband of 30+ years. Their AR art sculpture New World City received the 2020 Visionary Award by The 2112 Foundation, and was the 1st AR art published by MIT Press, and Leonardo. Their digital installations Interplanetary VR Sustainable Futures and War Room VR were shown at Espronceda Institute for Art and Culture (Barcelona), and Ars Electronica (Linz).
As Fast Forward Fund founder and Global Momenta CEO, Diana was honored by President Bill Clinton, named among “25 Leading Women Changing the World” (Good Business NY), and featured among “31 Inspiring Women in Nonprofit Management” (UNC). She was the inaugural Global Catalyst Senior Fellow (The New School), Nazarian Social Innovator in Residence (Wharton), Senior Fellow in Venture Philanthropy (Bard), and worked with Human Rights Watch, PEN., Mercy Corps, and the United Nations. In addition, she has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn, and taught at ASU, The New School, Bard, The American University of Paris, and Hunter College of the CUNY, where she directed the first U.S. undergraduate Human Rights Program. Diana speaks four languages and holds an LLM (International Human Rights Law, University of Essex Law School), and a BA with Honors (International Relations, University of Pennsylvania). She is privileged to serve as a Senior Global Futures Scientist, and as an Interplanetary Scholar at Arizona State University.