Our Team

Eager to help change the world, one word at a time

                              Photo by Constance Brukin

TANYA VAN COTT, AIA
CEO  | FOUNDER

NYS Architect | Industrial Designer | Writer
​Tanya has been writing about existing disruptive technologies through the eyes of unlikely, yet powerful female protagonists for the past decade. As a  NYS Architect and Industrial Designer, she has been published for innovations in design and awarded a Presidential Design Achievement Award by the National Endowment for the Arts. Tanya is currently working on a screenplay titled, Architecture of Lies. She  is interested in the possibility of social change through design but especially the written word.

Tanya's Favorite Writers:
​Kurt Vonnegut, Marguarite Duras, Yazmina Reza, Andrew Blum
Pratt Institute Barch | School of Architecture 
Pratt Institute M.I.D | School of Art & Design | Industrial Design

NEIL VAN COTT
In-House Editor

Favorite Writers: Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison and William Gay
​Rutgers University M.S.B. FA2026
Fordham University  M.A. | Journalism
Colgate University /University of St. Andrews
B.A. | English / Religion

JAN POTTER
​Marketing Manager

Favorite Books: The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle; The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho; Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare; Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
​Syracuse University B.A.  | Marketing
​Newhouse School of Communications

FATIMA SHAHZAD
 PR and Design Intern 

Favorite Books: The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller, Away We Go, by Emil Ostrovski and  books by Tanya  H. Van Cott (lol)
​​Farmingdale State College, B.S. |  Architectural Engineering Technology SP2026

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"Words have power and they can change the world"
"Kindness is what's missing, in most interactions"
and that
"Your words and actions should always align"