I started Cornbread. because somewhere in the middle of all of it, in the borderlands as Gloria Anzaldúa would call them, I kept meeting the same type of person. Someone who had built something real and felt a gap between what they experienced every day and the life they imagined living. Someone who needed an honest conversation to help them start something new, look in a different direction, or finally align with what they already know to be true.

I had been that person too.

Cornbread. is a personal direction practice I founded in Amsterdam for people ready to live more like themselves. This is where that conversation begins.

— Ramon

The Person

I've spent most of my life designing and building things. Interiors at General Motors, policy and queer culture in New York, arguments in French philosophy, design institutions across Europe, and spaces for people who just want to be seen.

I have a PhD in Philosophy of Technology from Goldsmiths, taught at UCL, led digital culture research at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, served as Creative Director and Vice Chairman of Design Academy Eindhoven, and published The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being with Sternberg Press in 2022. I have advised governments, led organizations, and shaped policy on AI and digital culture across three continents.

None of that is why I started Cornbread.