Laura Burney Nissen, PhD, MSW (she/her) is a Professor of Social Work at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where she has taught, conducted research, and administered two national programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation utilizing foresight approaches since 2000. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California, and has led a three-year campus-wide "Futures Collaboratory" as a Presidential Futures Fellow from 2019 to 2021. She received her MSW and PhD from the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work.