Kareema J. Thomas is a curator and strategist exploring how culture, technology and place shape collective futures.

Practice

Kareema’s work sits at the intersection of culture, technology and the built environment. Rooted in curatorial practice and shaped by years inside high-growth technology and venture ecosystems, she approaches institutions the way one might approach a landscape: through their underlying structures, the stories they carry and the systems that guide how people move within them.

Her practice brings together design research, organizational architecture and narrative clarity to help teams understand themselves more deeply and operate with coherence. Whether supporting founders, building connective tissue across venture communities, or shaping strategic programs inside developer-focused companies, she is drawn to the patterns that make environments functional, legible and humane.

Kareema’s current work turns toward the question of how culture and place shape institutional life. Her practice moves between spatial inquiry and grounded research, looking closely at how environments come to hold meaning and direction. This phase of her work strengthens her commitment to designing structures that support both stability and imaginative possibility.

Chief Strategy Officer

BLCK VC, March 2024 - October 2025