Embassy for the Future

The Evermay Future Fellowship has announced its inaugural cohort of Future Fellows - a group of five extraordinary thinkers whose work sits at the intersection of disciplines. Evermay will host two fellowship cohorts, beginning August 21, 2026, and February 19, 2027. 

Dr. Sachiko Kuno and Kate Goodall, who together founded the D.C.-based social-impact Halcyon Accelerator twelve years ago, created Evermay as the Embassy for the Future, a home for the ideas that will shape future generations. As technology, capital, and culture remake the world from every direction at once, the institutions built for speed often close an answer before anyone has asked the right question. Evermay sets out to do the opposite, giving people working on the hardest, longest-horizon problems the time, space, and care to think them through well. 

"The institutions built to navigate the last century were designed for a different pace and a different set of problems," said Kate Goodall, co-founder and CEO of Evermay. "Many are doing extraordinary work. Almost none were built for this moment. Evermay was. This program creates the conditions in which the right questions can emerge.”

Fellows spend a minimum of three weeks in residence, with the option to extend to six or nine. They have access to the residential home and gardens based in Georgetown, shared daily life, and the particular kind of intellectual friction that emerges only when a moral philosopher, a space architect, a bionic artist, and an AI researcher share a table every morning and discover that their questions are, at their deepest level, the same question.

Mornings are protected for deep independent work. Afternoons and evenings open into community: conversations across disciplines, curated mentorship, and sessions designed around the whole person doing the work, not just the work itself. Fellows share weekly family-style meals, and each produces at least one public-facing output during their residency. The fellowship asks one thing of its members: the willingness to do the slow, consequential work this moment requires, in community with people doing the same.

“I have spent my career backing ideas at their early stage,” said Dr. Sachiko Kuno, co-founder of Evermay. “Those ideas need two things above all: time and space to be thought through with care. We built Evermay to give them both."

The inaugural fellows work across moral reasoning and artificial intelligence, the preservation of human spaceflight knowledge, the intersection of identity and human augmentation, the reclamation of human agency in an era of algorithmic attention, and the long-horizon resilience of civilization itself.

"I have learned that future-proof thinking and good ideas alone are not enough,” said Viktoria Modesta, Fall 2026 Fellow. “This moment in history demands innovation and a change of pace at an institutional level. I am beyond excited to have the support of Evermay and the freedom, alongside the rest of the fellows, to see how our work can evolve in radical ways when it is given the time and space to grow."

For almost 250 years, the rooms of Evermay have gathered people to imagine what comes next. The Future Fellows Program places a new generation of thinkers in those rooms and affirms that some ideas still ask for a place worthy of their ambition.

Fall 2026 Fellows include:

• Anastasia Prosina, whose work bridges space architecture, policy, and human-centered design to preserve at-risk spaceflight knowledge and advocate for its recognition as essential public infrastructure

• Dasha Dare, whose work blends portrait photography, psychology, and coaching to explore how self-recognition can reshape memory and support personal transformation

• Eugenio Battaglia, whose work focuses on aligning AI with human values through complex systems and moral deliberation models

• Mercedes Laney, whose work centers on developing “attentional literacy” to shift power dynamics between individuals and extractive systems, to foster a future grounded in discernment, perception, and ethical imagination

• Viktoria Modesta, whose work bridges art, technology, and human augmentation to bring emerging science into mainstream culture