Jason Frasca transforms how organizations navigate complexity through making-centered innovation, bridging three decades of Fortune 500 experience with cutting-edge approaches to emergence and collaborative worldmaking. As co-founder of Emergent Futures Lab, Jason ensures that alternative creativity practices connect to measurable business outcomes through systematic implementation and technical expertise.

Over the past 11 years, Jason has been an Associate Teaching Professor and Co-Director of the MIX Lab (alongside Iain) at Montclair State University, where he has architected both curriculum and technical systems that enable students to discover agency through making. Jason has developed entrepreneurship and innovation curriculum that moves beyond traditional business planning toward making-centered approaches. Through his work with campus startups and as a key contributor to the Feliciano Center's annual pitch competitions, he has guided hundreds of students toward discovering agency through entrepreneurial making. 

Jason co-championed The MIX Lab, a 3D-printing makerspace that houses 35 3D printers. Originally created to support his startup classes with rapid prototyping, the lab has evolved into the foundation for the entrepreneurship program's innovation curriculum based on Emergent Futures Lab's Innovation Design Approach. Jason designed and maintains the technological infrastructure that supports learning through engagement rather than instruction.

At MSU, Jason continues to pioneer higher education differentiators. Jason has emerged as a leading voice in AI integration at Montclair State University, developing a fast-tracked AI course that equips students with critical 21st-century AI literacy skills. Rather than treating AI as a content generator or shortcut to completion, the course provides students with a radically different experience that positions AI as a collaborative amplifier of original work. Students learn to contribute original thinking (80%)—drawing on their own research, writing, and analysis—while strategically using AI (20%) to refine, expand, and elevate their academic work from good to exceptional.

In 2016, Jason co-created the Transatlantic Entrepreneurship Academy (TEA) with Iain and the University of Graz, an international study abroad reciprocal exchange focusing on green innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship. TEA, now in its 9th year, is the premier study abroad program at Montclair State University. TEA demonstrates how international collaboration can transform educational experiences, having impacted the lives of hundreds of students between New Jersey and Vienna.

Jason's approach to business transformation emerges from diverse experience managing complex client relationships. As Vice President of Sales & Business Development, he achieved consistent 10% year-over-year growth by developing analytics systems that revealed new patterns in professional services. His decade in direct marketing involved managing eight-figure client relationships and creating data-driven frameworks that uncovered unexpected pathways for organizational transformation.

Throughout his career, Jason has consistently achieved significant creative outcomes with limited resources—from early remote work infrastructure design to video technology implementations that transformed client relationships. This resourcefulness supports Emergent Futures Lab's belief that innovation emerges from creative constraint rather than unlimited funding. 

Jason's technical leadership in educational innovation bridges Emergent Futures Lab's sophisticated frameworks for emergence, translating into practical, implementable approaches. His combination of entrepreneurial experience and technical expertise brings operational depth to the lab's vision of innovation as collaborative worldmaking rather than individual genius. At Emergent Futures Lab, Jason ensures that alternative approaches to creativity and innovation connect to real-world business outcomes while maintaining the lab's commitment to making-centered, relationally-engaged practices that help organizations discover "what else can it do?" rather than being constrained by "what is it?