Our Team

Shannon spent 15 years in Africa, the South Pacific, and Southeast Asia leading anthropology research and human-centered design work to reframe environmental and health issues from local perspectives. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University. Shannon has been with the Hive since 2017 teaching classes and workshops on human-centered design, design for environmental behavior change, empathetic listening, and equity-health design. Shannon founded our summer design fellowship program to bring her love of international environmental design and equity health design to students. She loves to adventure, sing, and make art with her two-year-old human. Learn more about Shannon here.

Contact Shannon with questions about or for information on storytelling, community engagement, environmental and anthropological approaches in design, and creative approaches to research.

Trevor, an English-born American, began his career in the London art world, representing emerging British artists. He emigrated to the U.S. in his twenties and, soon after meeting his wife Kim (at an art show in New York), transitioned into finance technology, where he led customer-facing teams and managed corporate facilities for Fannie Mae in Philadelphia and Atlanta. In 2017, Trevor and Kim settled in Claremont. He’s a passionate woodworker, a dedicated volunteer at the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation, and a docent with Claremont Heritage home tours.

Linett has co-led programming and advocacy efforts in education, immigration, environmental justice, and the arts.  She brings her logistical and mentoring background to ensure the Hive runs smoothly and visitors feel welcome and confident in their inherent creative abilities. Contributing her writing and facilitation practices towards our healing journeys and building a more just world is her lifelong passion project. She holds undergraduate degrees in Performing Arts and Anthropology, an MA in Latin American Studies, and was awarded Best Dog Owner Award five years in a row by her dog Anubis.

Min graduated in 2022 with a focus on Asian American Studies. At the Hive, she is excited to learn how to use the making spaces and explore what creativity means to her. In her free time, she enjoys watching dramas, comfort food, and good company.

James was raised in the Inland Empire and graduated from the University of Chicago in 2025 with a B.A. in Human Rights with a keen interest in how knowledge is produced, qualified, translated, and practiced in service of a “public” good. This curiosity led him to curate a participatory cartographic intervention de[slash]re construction with in-tangible institute, a first of its kind exhibition called the univer/city: where are you and why? within the Reynolds Club at the University of Chicago, and a collaborative research series, desiderata, here in the Inland Empire. James has also completed the General Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science with a specialization in International Business in 2024.

Reese graduated from Pomona College in 2025 with a B.A. in Media Studies and a concentration in Critical Theory. She was a Student Staff at the Hive for three years, where she loved working with the Soundbox team, teaching skillshares in music production and songwriting, planning and implementing the Hive’s Tiny Patio Concert Series, and having fun with her co-workers! Reese loves creative writing (she’s writing fiction and screenwriting as of late), and has experience mentoring young students in their creative writing skills. Outside of the Hive, Reese enjoys playing volleyball, chess, and card games with her family. Ask her about feminist film theory, her hometown Las Vegas, or what she’s been listening to lately.

Aja was born and raised in Greenville, SC, and recently graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Art. At Pomona, Aja worked as a Resident Advisor and served as Co-President of the 5Circus Club. She was awarded both the Mary Drew Art Prize and the Matthew Klopfleisch Memorial Art Prize, celebrating her outstanding artistic achievement. Aja’s art practice centers on fiber arts, specifically weaving tapestries and creating collages through sewing. Outside of the studio, she is a hula hoop enthusiast and occasional street performer. Aja is passionate about arts education and is looking forward to supporting students in all their creative endeavors.

Fred spent 25 years at Fidelity Investments in Boston, most recently as Senior Vice President of Design Thinking and Innovation, where he also designed Fidelity’s first website in 1996. Fred has also been a lecturer and fellow at the Stanford d.school, where he taught a range of classes such as “Designing with Data,” “Designing for the Law,” and “Project Joy.” Fred is also active in the sport of curling and recently coached his son’s team at the World University Games in Almaty, Kazhakstan.

Contact Fred with questions about the Human-Centered Design class (E 180).

Asha is passionate about building new initiatives that address real human problems and is excited by spaces where design, strategy and storytelling meet. Her love for stories led her to start her career in film and media, with roles in creative development at Viacom, New Line Cinema and JWT. She then pivoted her focus to use creative problem-solving for meaningful social impact. At Fidelity Labs, she led the development and implementation of the Student Debt Relief Program to increase financial equity for borrowers through financial literacy, employer-sponsored benefit systems, and legislative advocacy.

Most recently, Asha was Director of Strategy at the Hive, a creativity and design center at the Claremont Colleges, and still teaches undergraduate classes in Human-Centered Design at Harvey Mudd College. Asha currently serves as the Managing Director of Strategy and Staff at KDI’s Los Angeles office. She has a bachelor’s degree in Film and Television from Syracuse Univerity’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, and an MBA from University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

Faculty

Brian Keeley, Professor of Philosophy, Pitzer College

Lynn Kirabo, Assistant Professor of Climate + Computer Science, Harvey Mudd College

Darren Filson, Director of the Randall Lewis Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Claremont McKenna College

Michael D. Steinberger, Associate Professor of Economics, Pomona College

Shannon Randolph, Director of Community and Global Engagement, Sontag Center

Students

Mira Shah, Pitzer ’27

Jamie Paik, Pomona ’28

Anna Priya Gupte, Scripps ’27

G. Gabrielle Starr, President of Pomona College

Yuqing Melanie Wu, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College of Pomona College

Harriet Nembhard, President of Harvey Mudd College

Tom Donnelly, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Harvey Mudd College

Hiram Chodosh, President of Claremont McKenna College

Heather Antecol, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Claremont McKenna College

Strom C. Thacker, President of Pitzer College

Allen Omoto, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Pitzer College

Amy Marcus-Newhall, President of Scripps College

Jennifer Armstrong, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty of Scripps College