Lori Melichar is a labor economist and the Senior Director of the at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she leads a team that explores cutting-edge ideas and emerging trends to help us anticipate, adapt to, and influence the future (5-10-15 years out). The Pioneering Ideas team’s investments are often ideas that journey from the fringe to the mainstream years later, triggering fundamental changes to the way we live, learn, work and play over a generation. She is sharing some tools the Foundation has employed to help see new pathways to more equitable futures.