Trish(a) Hautéa, MAT, MBA, (she/her/siya) is an executive advisor & consultant for small businesses, Fortune 100/500 companies, academic institutions, boutique law firms, financial advisory firms, and nonprofits. She is additionally an experienced educator and public speaker. She's worked on various issues, including environmental sustainability, accessibility to the arts, genetics education on a Congressional level (with NASA and leaders of CRISPR), and social justice; affiliated institutions include Harvard Medical School, MIT, and The Aspen Institute.

 

Though no longer a formal classroom educator, she remains passionate about disseminating complex ideas into accessible knowledge to inspire action for social change; a commitment that guided her journey into social entrepreneurship at MIT’s Media Lab and IDEO, where she honed skills in innovation, human-centered design, and creating scalable impact. She now focuses on executive positioning and partnerships in entertainment and creator economy with companies like Nickelodeon and Paramount. She enjoys bringing people together to collaborate, connect, and pursue partnership opportunities across multiple industries.

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In her spare time, Trisha is a mixed-media visual artist and muralist, provides arts workshops, supports various STEM+Art (STEAM) initiatives, and aims to close the diversity representation gap in children's books with her colleague (LittleNingBooks.com). Trisha's illustrated book, "Pepper Zhang: Artist Extraordinaire!", was featured in multiple media outlets, including NPR, HuffPost, NextShark, NowThis, Upworthy, Konbini, Bustle, & more (and was even shared by Mark Ruffalo and George Takei). She is the Vice President and Communications Board Chair of the Filipino American National Historical Society Metro–NY (FANHS-MNY). Additionally, she serves on the Archaeology Committee of the National Arts Club in Gramercy Park and is a member of the 150th Anniversary Steering Committee for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

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Trisha holds a BFA and MAT from Tufts University, where she was the commencement speaker for her graduate class, and an MBA from the Quantic School of Business and Technology. Outside of her professional responsibilities, she enjoys dancing, rock climbing, hiking, camping, cooking too much food for friends, and occasionally, tattooing. She is a Filipino-American native New Yorker who splits her time between NYC and West Hollywood/Los Angeles.