Francesca Galli

Knowledge illuminator. I work where technology, history, and civic life intersect.

AI · Civic Tech Cognitive Health Experiential Knowledge Urban Sketching Consulting
Work

Civic Technology

Fellowhisp Candidate at Newspeak House — London's College of Political Technology. I study AI safety and governance, experiment with agentic coding, run sessions on AI and cognition, tech dystopias and deliberative democracy.

Data & Consulting

Data-focused management consulting — helping organisations understand what their numbers actually mean, and what decisions follow from them. I bring a humanist's perspective to quantitative work: data without context is just noise.

The Magpie Brain

A Substack on following one's curiosity. Essays on the natural commons of the internet, on what cities remember, on the strangeness of information itself. Experimentative, intentional, long-form.

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History & Place

Volunteer guide at the British Museum & urban sketcher. In development: a walking tour of Cremona tracing Fascism and Resistance from the 1920s to WWII — to make knowledge experiential, and to nurture civic consciousness.

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About

I'm a writer, data analyst, visual artist, and management consultant interested in how interdisciplinary knowledge and technology can support stronger civic engagement.

Originally from Cremona, Italy, I've studied and worked in the UK, France and the US. I moved to London in 2019 for a consulting job, and that's been home ever since. I bring to my projects an unusual combination of backgrounds: an analytical skillset in my consulting job, a researcher's focus in my study of technology and society, a humanist's curiosity in my writing, artistic and guiding work.

I believe all knowledge is interconnected and should be explored and crafted as such. Technology is a great enabler of interconnectedness, a conduit for knowledge, but technology is also ruled by a set of political and economic incentives that seem to inevitably lead to resource and power accumulation. I am interested in how we can make technology work for human well-being, and what governance structures we need to establish in order to make this happen.

Communities - local, in-person communities especially - have helped me understand the importance of network effects in imagining new narratives, encountering diverse points of view, and building social resilience. I champion them at every opportunity.

If any of the above sparks an interest, or if you like modern board games, please do get in touch! I'm always open to collaborations, curiosity chats and nerdiness.

Francesca Galli
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