@future_folklore

Joel Kady  is a NYC-based technology consultant who founded Future Folklore, an incubator for new companies and applied research engaging the UAP domain, and co-founded the UAP Working Group on UN Engagement at the Ralph Bunche Institute.

Joel completed his undergraduate studies in political economy at the University of Washington and earned his master’s degree at the New York City campus of Reformed Theological Seminary. His research interests include folklore and religious traditions as vehicles for encoding technical knowledge, alongside novel approaches to treating UAP data as engineering constraints for generating new technical hypotheses, architectures, and R&D pathways.

Joel works with law firms on major financial and accounting system implementations, reporting, and other technical projects. He previously served as a research faculty member at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, focusing on scientific computing, worked for several years as an ordained minister in NYC, and as a business consultant in Dubai.