Team
George Levasser
Founder
Founder of The Impending Bloom Project, a New York State 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and Emergent Elements Inc. Based in Astoria, Queens, New York.
Yu-Jen Chen
Artistic Director
Motion designer, illustrator, and 3D artist with an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design. Her client work spans Microsoft, the Empire State Building, and Google. She leads the visual identity of The Impending Bloom Project.
Fatih Emin Öge
Lead Technology Engineer
Software engineer with a background in full-stack development, cloud infrastructure (AWS), containerization, and machine learning. Currently at FairMoney and previously at Papara, a leading Turkish fintech platform.
Advisors
Amit Maraj, Ph.D.
Advisory Board
AI leader and engineer with a Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing and four years at Google as Senior AI Developer Relations Engineer. Now AI Leadership at DVx Ventures, he advises on AI architecture, multi-agent systems, and responsible AI integration.
Chris Lanoue
Advisory Board
Senior full-stack engineer and Sr. Principal Product Engineer at Mission Lane with deep expertise in Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS. He holds two U.S. patents in data visualization and virtual reality, and mentors students through FIRST Robotics.
Our Mission
The Impending Bloom Project is built on a single foundational belief: when you change what people can see, you change what people pursue. And when enough people pursue something different, systems change.
We pursue this belief across four interconnected programs — educating young people in systems thinking, preparing sustainability professionals to analyze and act on social and environmental value, developing tools that make that value visible and measurable, and supporting communities in shaping the systems they live within.
We do not believe change happens through any single intervention. We believe it emerges — from many actors, across many scales, each seeing a little more clearly. Our role is to accelerate that emergence. To cultivate the conditions in which something new can bloom.