Ingrid LaFleur is a futurist, curator, cultural strategist, and pleasure activist whose work advances Black intellectual traditions through futures research and decolonial practice. Working at the intersection of emerging technologies, race, and cultural production, she brings over twenty years of experience in contemporary art curation and community-centered inquiry.

LaFleur partners with universities and cultural institutions to cultivate futures literacy as a critical skill for historically marginalized communities. Her methodology integrates speculative design, strategic foresight, and artistic research with the cultural movement of Afrofuturism to activate the Black radical imagination and more just and equitable futures. Her work positions imagination not as abstraction, but as infrastructure for institutional transformation and community resilience.

As Founder of The Afrofuture Strategies Institute, LaFleur develops pedagogical frameworks, workshops, and world-building labs that support faculty, students, and administrators in navigating technological change, social complexity, and global uncertainty. From artificial intelligence to blockchain, she examines how emergent technologies can be reimagined through culturally specific, justice-oriented lenses rooted in Black feminist perspectives and diasporic knowledge systems.

She has presented lectures and facilitated engagements at institutions including the Princeton University, Harvard University, and University of Oxford. Her work has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, Time Magazine, and NPR.

LaFleur holds a Master of Science in Foresight from the University of Houston and continues to develop methodologies that bridge curatorial practice, Black cultural studies, and strategic foresight to support thriving futures across the African diaspora.