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Monday, 01/26/26

2:59 PM UTC

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Monday, 01/26/26

2:59 PM UTC

Currently: Madrid Next: Puerto Rico

Currently: Berlin

Next: Puerto Rico

Jorge Vega Matos

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I build narratives that bridge technical innovation and cultural context. My work spans founding teams at climate startups, organizing mutual aid responses to hurricanes, and turning experimental ideas into movements that resonate across continents.

I build narratives that bridge technical innovation and cultural context. My work spans founding teams at climate startups, organizing mutual aid responses to hurricanes, and turning experimental ideas into movements that resonate across continents.

Below you'll find projects across communications, climate action, and cultural intervention. Also, some ways to reach out: I'm always open to enriching chats and exploring fruitful collaborations.

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PROUD OF

CARBONWAVE: launching a seaweed revolution in the Caribbean, one of the regions most affected by climate collapse

Founding team member at Carbonwave, leading branding, digital communications, and go-to-market strategy for the core brand and four subsidiaries through $9M Series A funding. Built the brand from zero and secured coverage in National Geographic, Deutsche Welle, Fast Company, and recognition by the World Economic Forum's Uplink Program. Our work transformed Caribbean Sargassum seaweed from an environmental crisis into a source for carbon-neutral biomaterials across cosmetics, agriculture, and manufacturing.

PERIPHERAL INTUITIONS: Turning a Berlin nightclub into a night school and community center

Co-curated with artist Chaveli Sifre, Peripheral Intuitions was selected by the inaugural Night Embassy program as one of six projects representing the future of Berlin nightlife. We transformed a Berlin nightclub into an experimental learning space that blurred boundaries between nightlife, arts, healing, and politics. Over two weeks, our 18-hour daily program combined artistic interventions, immersive design, and sensory workshops to center perspectives from the margins and celebrate alternative visions of the future.

[ASDR] Autonomous Sensory Dissociative Response

Commissioned video art piece for the Attune collaborative research platform hosted by collective and label Research and Waves. Tapping into the popularity of ASMR and the fear of ongoing experiments in emotional manipulation by political operatives, the piece imagines an abstraction of a political manifesto delivered with one objective: assuage through discomfort.

HURRICANE MUTUAL AID: Co-activating a diaspora response to the strongest landfalling hurricane in 100+ years

Within hours of Hurricane Maria's landfall in Puerto Rico, I created what became the largest database of donation and collection points in the US. I integrated my work into larger initiative by diaspora activists that quickly organized horizontally around emerging needs during the communications blackout, co-facilitated with community organizer Pablo Benson. Within weeks, we shifted to support the leadership of mutual aid and grassroots groups on the ground.

Read the case study by Rafael Fernández for Summer of Protocols, which includes an organizational analysis of our efforts.

MONGOL RALLY: Driving one fourth of earth's circumference in a $500 used hatchback

The Mongol Rally has been often called one of the world's most challenging road trips, mainly due to the fact that it required us to travel more than 10,000 kilometers in a car with an engine smaller than 1-liter (a vehicle less powerful than most motorcycles).

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about

I'm a researcher, strategist, and artist focused on social impact and transnational mobilization.

Most recently, I was founding lead of Communications, Marketing, and Public Affairs at Carbonwave, a public benefit corporation creating valuable circular economies based on seaweed that address regenerative agriculture, sustainable manufacturing, and scalable carbon sequestration.

His current focus is on accelerating community-led, justice-oriented, and inclusive models of climate that are suited for the realities that communities of the global south face in our climate emergency.

What I uncover are provocative truths and disruptive strategies that help organizations to discover biases, recognize early signals, solve problems, and pilot new ways of doing that lead to a more conscious society.

about

I'm a researcher, strategist, and artist focused on social impact and transnational mobilization.

Most recently, I was founding lead of Communications, Marketing, and Public Affairs at Carbonwave, a public benefit corporation creating valuable circular economies based on seaweed that address regenerative agriculture, sustainable manufacturing, and scalable carbon sequestration.

His current focus is on accelerating community-led, justice-oriented, and inclusive models of climate that are suited for the realities that communities of the global south face in our climate emergency.

What I uncover are provocative truths and disruptive strategies that help organizations to discover biases, recognize early signals, solve problems, and pilot new ways of doing that lead to a more conscious society.

about

I'm a researcher, strategist, and artist focused on social impact and transnational mobilization.

Most recently, I was founding lead of Communications, Marketing, and Public Affairs at Carbonwave, a public benefit corporation creating valuable circular economies based on seaweed that address regenerative agriculture, sustainable manufacturing, and scalable carbon sequestration.

His current focus is on accelerating community-led, justice-oriented, and inclusive models of climate that are suited for the realities that communities of the global south face in our climate emergency.

What I uncover are provocative truths and disruptive strategies that help organizations to discover biases, recognize early signals, solve problems, and pilot new ways of doing that lead to a more conscious society.

Jorge Vega Matos, 2025