Interact Residency
Mission District, San Francisco
This summer Interact hosted the third and final pilot of its Technology Residency in San Francisco, led by Residency Director Alexia Bonatsos and supported by teammates Katherine Moore and Maran Nelson. The first two Residency pilots were hosted in New York City in 2022 and 2023, under the Directorship of Devon Zuegel and Jess Cole alongside teammates Santi Ruiz and Tom McCarthy.
It has been a great pleasure to codify what we've learned through these pilots, and to anchor Interact's Residency in the larger technology ecosystem with the Symposium. We hope this directory picks up where the Symposium left off, and acts as a small archive of our large experiment in self-organization.
If you were in attendance at any of this summer's events and want to stay in touch, or if you missed out on this year but would appreciate notice in the future, please feel free to leave your email below and a member of the Fellowship will be in touch!
Meet the 2025 Residents
Click to learn more about the Residents and their inquiries.
Meet the Residency Team
Meet the Affiliate Residents
Affiliates are trusted peers and lightweight partners to Interact's Residents and were nominated internally for the strength of their personhood and the ideas they bring. Their role is simple but essential: to challenge, sharpen, and elevate the collective judgment of the Interact fellowship by being fully themselves.
Affiliates including Darren Zhu, Mads Frechette, Royce Branning, Andrea Funsten, Soleio Cuervo, Jasmine Sun, Casey Newton, Nathan Sharp, Noah Smith, Dan Wang, and Lisa Wehden served as expert references, collaborators, and advisors. They had full access to the Residency space, received support for hosting and attending events, and played key roles as mentors and cornerstone voices at the Symposium.
Symposium
The 10 Residents hosted presentations of their research, each of which explored opportunities for our technologies to improve the way we live, play, and work. Their projects ranged from investigations into climate, memory, and the internet to new lenses on agriculture, religion, and civic agency. Symposium events were hosted across a few creative venues around our community in the Mission, all within walking distance of the central Residency house.
As with all things Interact, we hope that this forum shaped the trajectory of our ecosystem's thinking in a distinctly personal and productive way. All Residents, Affiliates, and Symposium guests were encouraged to be active participants in the Residency's development. Interact cares about facilitating sincere engagement with big ideas, and we were delighted to have you all play a crucial role in these conversations.
What is Interact?
Interact is a 501(c)3 technology fellowship and research organization that incubates novel inquiries, collaborations, and introspections with our technologies. Our hope is to increase the agency and humanitarian impact of technologists across disciplines.
For more information about Interact, please visit joininteract.com or email team@joininteract.com with inquiries.
