
Jessy Kate Schingler
Visiting Researcher
Jessy Kate Schingler is a legal design researcher and expert in governance innovation for new entities and jurisdictions. With 15+ years of experience pioneering institution design at the intersection of technology, law, and social innovation, she co-founded the Open Lunar Foundation to advance cooperative frameworks for lunar land tenure, public goods, and shared infrastructure. A former software engineer on NASA’s Nebula cloud (the precursor to OpenStack) and Astra's first rockets, she brings technical fluency to her work on legal frameworks for emerging domains. In her personal life, Jessy Kate has been involved in starting and operating a number of place based community initiatives that center new approaches to mutualism and participatory decision-making in San Francisco, including the Embassy SF, the Red Victorian and, more recently, The Fold. She is training concurrently as a lawyer with Mill Law Center. Previously, Jessy Kate held appointments as a Legal Fellow with Earth Law Center, and an affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center.
At Chiba, Jessy Kate will co-lead an initiative at the Henkaku Center focused on leapfrog opportunities for emerging jurisdictions enabled by advancements in technology—from special administrative and economic zones to new states and states in transition.
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