Meet the Team

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Dr. Grover Wehman-Brown

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Wehman-Brown is a narrative strategist, intellectual, and writer whose leadership blends empathy for where people are at and get-things-done rigor. They have designed and led trainings with government, advocacy, and non-profit leaders across the US, taught undergraduate students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and spent more than a decade researching policy processes that enabled homelessness to expand in the United States.

Over the last decade, their communications, narrative strategy, and training work supported organizations working for housing, racial, and economic justice in the United States. They hold a PhD and MA in Communications from the University of North Carolina and a BFA in writing for Poetry, Publication and Media from the Pratt Institute.

Grover's podcast and writing projects help people metabolize change in challenging times. Their writing on homelessness, gender, sexuality, and cultural politics has been published in venues including Autostraddle, Huffington Post, Writers Resist, the Journal of Space and Culture. They are the co-author of Should I Stay or Should I Go? A step-by-step workbook to help you decide if leaving the US is right for you and host a newsletter, You've Got Mail only Butch and Platonic, on their website: groverwehmanbrown.com. You can connect with them via LinkedIn.

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Nova Wehman-Brown

Co-Founder, Chief Experience Officer

Nova Wehman-Brown (she/her) is a UX and product design executive with nearly 30 years of experience building human-centered technology at scale. She has led design strategy, research, and product development across both private sector and public sector organizations — working at the intersection of complex systems, organizational change, and the people who actually have to use them.

Known for her people-first approach to leadership, Nova has built and scaled high-performing design teams, championed accessibility and equity as non-negotiables, and helped organizations make better decisions by keeping real human needs at the center of everything. Her work spans enterprise technology, civic tech, and emerging digital platforms.

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and shaped by years living abroad in pre-Putin Russia and studying language and culture in France, Nova brings a rare combination of global perspective and deep technical fluency. She is a writer, strategist, and community builder who builds at the intersection of systems thinking and radical empathy — because the most rigorous thing you can do is refuse to lose sight of the human.

As co-author of Should I Stay or Should I Go?, Nova draws on her experience in design thinking, people-centered tool building, and social justice to help guide readers through one of the most difficult questions of our time: whether to build a life within a country sliding toward authoritarianism, or imagine a new one elsewhere. It is, in many ways, a natural extension of her life's work — helping people navigate uncertainty with clarity.

In 2024–2025, she cofounded and served as board chair for Queer Joy Collaborative, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit supporting LGBTQ+ connection through music, art, and mutual aid. She is now the founder of Strategic Creations Studio, working with organizations navigating change, complexity, and the very human challenges that come with both.