Founder of SM+ART and The George Greenstein Institute, Dr. Greenstein aka Dr. G. is an XPRIZE Vanguard on the GLOBAL LEARNING Challenge, award-winning Knowledge Transfer Architect, Fulbright Scholar, International Arts and Science Researcher.
As Master Inventio! she models the talent for whole systems thinking and doing for innovation (inventio is a root word), integrating areas of applied neuroscience, embodied arts and design thinking leading to creative prototyping and making.
Her career as a researcher began in a spinal cord lab while studying movement therapies and dance ethnographies at UCLA. She later earned her Ph. D at the Claremont Graduate University looking at methods of creative practice grounded on contemplative theory and methods.
A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. G. spent nearly two decades as an Asia-Pacific researcher, commentator and collaborator with leading artists, designers and researchers focused on cultural divides and brain/mind development.
Dr. G. is an Adjunct Assoc. Professor at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena and on the graduate Social Design faculty at MICA where she mentors a generation of creatives. She is a member of TED, Mindshare LA, the SILC Spatial Studies network and a press member for the Society for Neuroscience and the Neurotechnology Industry Organization.
