Senior Director & Assistant Dean · Institute of Design at Illinois Tech

Kristin
Gecan

Editorial Director · Content Strategist · AI & Writing Researcher

PhD 2028

I play the long game: defining your organization's purpose, asserting its voice, and maintaining both—across channels, media moments, and hype cycles.

For more than fifteen years I've worked at the intersection of ideas and audiences: translating research for publics, building editorial ecosystems that hold together across platforms and constituencies, and asking what success means as the rules of the game change under our feet. My expertise lies in establishing sustainable content programs for mission-driven organizations.

Currently: Senior Director & Assistant Dean of Content, Institute of Design at Illinois Tech
Also: finishing a PhD on human agency and AI
Always: learning, reading, writing
Kristin Gecan

Latest

Work

Impact by Design — An extension of ID's Latham Fellowship, tracing the patterns behind great design impact. Published 2026. See all work →

Writing

The Futures We Forgot: Reopening the Collective Closures in Personal Technologies to Strengthen Human Agency — accepted abstract, PHTR Conference, TU Delft, 2026. Read →