As a minister turned designer, Seanan combines a grounded empathy and constructive imagination to reweave our missing moral infrastructure. He is launching the SF Contemplarium with support from the Mira Fellowship, Build IRL, and the Hinckley Fund.

Seanan received his B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University and his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. Having grown up as a nonreligious Chinese American, he co-authored Family Sacrifices: The Ethics and Worldviews of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, 2019), a sociological study of Chinese Americans reviewed in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion as “a must-read for scholars interested in reevaluating what is, and what is not, religious.”

Bringing his perspective as a queer, secular-humanist Chinese American to Unitarian Universalism, Seanan was ordained at the First Parish in Cambridge, where he also served his parish internship. He did his clinical chaplaincy internship at Stanford Hospital, serving the emotional and spiritual needs of a wide variety of patients and their families across the theological spectrum.

As a conflict resolution practitioner, Seanan was contracted as the independent ombuds at a major technology company. He has also served as a facilitator, mediator, conflict coach, and conflict skills trainer for a range of groups navigating conflict. His work with the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program assessing a townwide political tension was covered in the Boston Globe.

Most recently, Seanan spearheaded designing UX for clinicians at a healthcare technology company serving primary care physicians. His work designing for healthcare has immersed him in the difficult structural and personal dimensions of promoting well-being in our communities.