
20+ years in project + event management, community curation, digital + social strategy, culture-crafting, improvising, and systems-level hacking of education. Systems thinker; cultural enzyme; wanderer; serendipity and trust junkie. President, Learning Economy Foundation | Co-founder, Transformative Impact Summit | Producer & Steward, The Future of Web3 + JournoDAO + The Human Layer — focused on social impact, web3, privacy, identity, the future of education, and occasionally writing to make sense of it all @ tayken.beehiiv.com 💬Ask me about hyperversion or why spacetime is doomed.
ucdenver.edu
ed.gov
loc.gov
Denver, Colorado, United States
President
Learning Economy Foundation
• www.linkedin.com/company/learnonomy
• Full-time
Mar 2022 - Present
Denver, Colorado, United States
Chief Program Officer
Learning Economy Foundation
• www.linkedin.com/company/learnonomy
• Full-time
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
Co-Producer
Desert Rat Productions
• www.linkedin.com/company/desertrat-media
• Part-time
Mar 2025 - Present
Co-Founder
Transformative
• www.linkedin.com/company/trnsfrmtv
• Part-time
Jan 2024 - Present
Speaker + Consultant
TaykenDesign
• Freelance
Jan 2019 - Present
Denver, Colorado
Adjunct Professor
University of Colorado Denver
• www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-colorado-denver
• Seasonal
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
Denver, Colorado
Community Manager
T3 Innovation Network
• Contract
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020