creative professional

About Me

LARISSA DOUGLASS

technology assessment in human terms

I have 25 years of experience in writing, marketing, strategy, analysis and teaching in different tech areas.

What I Bring to Your Team

Thought Leadership. With 25 years in tech-focused research and strategy, I offer a rare blend of historical depth, analytical clarity, and future-focused insight. Educated at Oxford, I’ve written and published 1M+ words on emerging trends, while recognizing the cultural, economic, and political roots of innovation. Whether I am shaping a brand voice or expanding public understanding, I combine a researcher’s precision, an educator’s clarity, and a futurist’s imagination.

Skills

Multidisciplinary strengths in tech, content, and community.
A track record of shaping strategy, building teams, and scaling ideas across platforms.

Marketing

Experienced in marketing content strategy at Searchmetrics (Silicon Valley) and led crypto PR for Earthcoin. Blended research, SEO, and brand goals to create bilingual English-German evergreen scripts on AI, social media, and Google patents. Skilled in campaign ideation and audience-aligned messaging for startups, academia, and nonprofits.

Narrative Strategy & Content Architecture

Award-winning writer. I develop story frameworks and compelling arcs for emerging tech that scale across platforms and formats. I have researched, written and published 1,900+ longform online posts, totaling 1M+ words and have built four blogs with 5.7M+ views. Originated the writing of ‘real time history.’

Educator

Ranked “exceeds expectations” at Paper Education. Taught 2,100+ K–12 students online and reviewed 3,000+ essays in Humanities and Social Sciences. Designed and taught undergrad courses in Canada, the UK, and Germany. Developed my blog to use Web 2.0 as a platform for public education.

Project & Team Leadership

Led a 12-person team to coordinate a 100+ attendee academic conference at Oxford. Directed small distributed teams at Earthcoin. Served four years on a nonprofit board, with conflict resolution training. Taught undergraduate course with a unit on Peter F. Drucker's management theory at the University of Leipzig.

Content Deployment with Visual Integration

I specialize in cross-platform storytelling. I create brand-aligned assets including educational slides, copy, and video. I designed crypto memes for $Earthcoin, $Maneki, and $Tyrel. Skilled in WordPress, Wix, Blogger, Canva, and AI visual tools. My work supports narrative-driven websites and digital storytelling for literary projects, podcasts, and children’s media.

Community Building

I grow communities online and off through content, PR, outreach, and engagement. I connect stakeholders to the public through strategic storytelling. I’ve organized academic events as educational catalysts. At Earthcoin, my social media campaigns and forum moderation raised its CoinMarketCap rank from #120s to #80s, increasing overall token value.

Unparalleled Insights

I am a Blue Sky Thinker who assesses the impact of 21st century technology on pre-existing systems and who can explain it in plain terms.

Investigating QuadrigaCX

The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, collapsed in early 2019. As a member of the alt-media, I investigated the collapse alongside investors on Telegram.

Research Highlight

I was interviewed for a Netflix documentary, Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King.

Research Results

I discovered a possible connection between Quadriga and the Panama Papers.

In January 2021, Zoë Hutton, Minnow Films producer in the UK, interviewed me regarding my report on the exchange: “I was amazed and impressed by the amount of detail you’ve gathered.”

See My Quadriga Reports