Cyndi Coon

Cynthia (Cyndi) Coon is an American artist, writer, producer, and futurist known for her work in applied threatcasting and futurecasting. She splits her time between the Sonoran desert of Arizona and the high mountain desert of New Mexico. Coon is the Founder and CEO of Laboratory5 Inc., (2003) where she collaborates with government agencies, the military, higher education institutions, and NGOs on projects ranging from Threatcasting to information shaping to prototyping to experiential research. She is the co-founder of the Threatcasting Lab at Arizona State University.
==Early life and education==
Cyndi Coon was born in Fremont, Michigan, and spent her early years in Holton, Michigan, before moving to various locations in Texas during her lower elementary school years. Her family eventually returned to Twin Lake, Michigan, where she resided until her graduation from Holton High School in 1992.
Coon pursued higher education at Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, MI, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She further expanded her artistic education at the Ox-Bow School of Art (1994), the Accademia Di Bella Arti in Perugia, Italy (1995), and the New School Parsons School of Design in New York (1996). Coon completed her Masters of Fine Art at Arizona State University, focusing on community-based, temporary public engagements known as Social Practice.
==Career==
Cyndi Coon's professional journey encompasses various roles in the fields of art, writing, production, and futures. She has worked with government agencies, the military, higher education institutions, NGOs, and nonprofits, focusing on applied Futurecasting, Threatcasting, prototyping, information shaping, and experiential research. 
She holds multiple professional titles, including:
* Founder and CEO, Laboratory5 Inc
* Founder and Applied Futurist Applied Futures Lab
* Co-Founder and Experiential Futurist, Threatcasting Lab, Arizona State University
She specializes in information shaping, futurecasting, and threatcasting. Her work involves producing tangible applied results and building human ecosystems by linking individuals to globally relevant topics. 
She has participated in the Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly. She served on the solutions team for Consortiums for Good, the winner of MIT's 2020 Elevate Prize.
She founded Laboratory5 Inc in 2003. The lab is a creative hub focused on producing tangible results and building human ecosystems by linking individuals to globally relevant topics.
==Awards==
* 2021 Outstanding Women in Business, Phoenix Business Journal
* 2021 Challenge Coin, US Space Command, Designing Space
* 2015 Thinker, Think Global SPARK Award
* 2014 Women of the Year Circle, National Association of Professional Women
* 2004 Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Temporary Public Art, Artists Initiative Award
==Publications==
* Coon, C. (2024). *Content Remix: Guidebook to Repurposing Existing Content* Turkey Hill Press. ISBN: 979-8323144983.
* Coon, C., Chazen, L., Elford, W., Esser, C., Kaminski, P., Lennon, M., Shannon, K. (2024)
*AI Futures: An Anthology* Turkey Hill Press ISBN:
* Coon, C., Hammond, R. (2023) *Mapping Your Breath: A Personal Workbook* Turkey Hill Press. ISBN: 979-8892698429.
Johnson, B.D., Vanatta, T., & Coon, C. (2021). *Threatcasting*. Springer Nature. ISBN: 978-3-031-01447-5.
* Coon, C. (2020). *Drummond in My Order a Poetry Collection*. TurkeyHillPress. ISBN: 9781716718984.
* Coon, C. (2020). *Encyclopedia Series for a Post-Factual Era*. TurkeyHillPress. Numerous ISBNs.
* Coon, C. (2019). *Thrive! The Creative's Guidebook to Professional Tenacity*. Cognella. ISBN: 978-1-5165-2260-6.
* Coon, C. (2006). *Art That Pops*. Scholastic. ISBN: 0-43981337-9.
Category:American artists
Category:Writers
Category:Producers
Category:People from Fremont, Michigan