User:KendraR
My name is Kendra Rosencrans, and I am the SenseMaker® research coordinator for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. I am also involved with the Cynefin Centre's Project Numinous, a global SenseMaker® programme designed to explore meaning, ritual, & belonging among and through communities of faith and/or spiritual practice.
CV for public use
Kendra Rosencrans holds a doctoral degree in organizational systems from Saybrook University, a master's of divinity degree from Luther Seminary, and a master's in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her research focuses on the power of narratives in organizational problem-solving, innovation, and change.
Kendra was a Knight Fellow in specialized reporting at the University of Maryland. She was recognized by the Knight-Ridder company for her work in civic journalism in Aberdeen, SD, on the complex impacts of depopulation and convening regional conversations around the need for complex systems change. While at the Duluth News-Tribune, Kendra and her reporting partner, Craig Lincoln, received a National Headliner's Award and an IRE Award for in 1999 for their investigation into local nursing home deaths and the national issue of poorly designed bed side rails for elderly people. Rosencrans also was a member of the Knight-Ridder reporting team assisting the Grand Forks (ND) Herald during its continuing coverage of the 1997 Red River flood, for which the newspaper and the team won the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
In 2017, Kendra received the Margaret Mead Memorial Student Award from the International Society for the Systems Sciences. The award, named for the anthropologist Margaret Mead who was a co-founder and the first woman president of the ISSS academic society, recognizes doctoral research that addresses contemporary challenges within communities in ways that empower agency with integrity, imagination, and well-being. Rosencrans is also the co-founder of a new digital academic publication, the Systemic Change Journal.
Supporting Material
- Rosencrans, K., (2020). Tohu va-Facebook and Dave Snowden. In (D. Snowden, S. Blignaut, Eds), Cynefin: Weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world. Singapore: Cognitive Edge.
- Rosencrans, K. (2019). Narratives of Ingenuity: Using Coworking Space Stories to See Systems Change. (Doctoral dissertation). Saybrook University. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 13898081.
- Rosencrans, K. (2017). Pilot case study: How two nonprofit education foundations use social media to support systemic engagement. Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2017 Vienna, Austria, 2017(1).
- Rosencrans, K. (2016). Proposing values and practices for a culture of organizational ingenuity: Hacking systems thinking to pursue the preposterous and produce the impossible. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2016 Boulder, CO, 2016 (1).
- Rosencrans, K. (2014), Nurturing Faith for Action: Theological Education and Global Responsibility. Dialog, 53: 304-311. doi:10.1111/dial.12133