Saga Blane

Saga Blane is a writer, cultural theorist, brand voice strategist, creative director, weaver of people and ideas, deep listener, ritual technologist, ancestral futurist, and mother.

Her work spans mediums, and holds its centerline: a devotion to creative intelligence as a living relationship to be tended, not extracted from.

Education & training

• M.A. History of Art — University of Edinburgh First Class Honours · Technology, image theory, and the politics of collective meaning-making
• M.E.D. — Yale School of Architecture Systems Science and Theory · Yen & Dolly Liang Fellowship · Innovation space as cultural ritual; digital/physical space and collective meaning
• WPP Fellow — seven of two thousand selected globally, 2014–2017 Global brand development across luxury, media, and culture · Final placement: Refinery29

Her work spans brand voice direction (The Raleigh Hotel, Miami, with SHVO and Peter Marino), coaching (Julius Bär wealth management), brand positioning (luxury real estate), content ecosystems (AdaMarie), cultural intelligence (Meta), and building Refinery29's internal brand universe alongside co-founder Piera Gelardi.

She speaks Finnish, French, and Spanish. She lives in the Catskill Mountains with her two children and an elderly pitbull.

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