Meredith Alexander Kunz

Bio

I work at the intersection of AI, innovation, strategy, and technology storytelling. At Adobe, I lead research and innovation communications, a program I built from the ground up. My team partners with researchers and engineers across the organization, in generative and agentic AI, LLMs, computer vision, video, audio, and 3D, to tell the story of their work.

Much of that work is strategy rather than communications in the traditional sense: building systems that carry technical breakthroughs into executive alignment, product influence, and public impact. I joined as Adobe Research's founding science writer, when there was no communications practice at all, and built one: the news site and technical blog, the video series, a social presence that grew more than 700%, and the messaging for keynotes by its VP and Head, including executive presentations that helped secure multi-million-dollar funding for the generative AI roadmap.

Before Adobe I spent six years at Stanford working on communications for interdisciplinary science: research initiatives, capital campaigns, and major gifts of $10 million and above. The scientists were proposing work that crossed departmental boundaries, and the people considering very large investments in it needed to understand why that mattered. Bio-X, ChEM-H, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute all came out of campaigns I wrote for.

That is the same problem I work on now. At Stanford it was scientists and donors; at Adobe it is researchers, executives, product teams, and the public. In both cases, people who understand something difficult need to be understood by people who will act on it.

I came to this from journalism. My writing has appeared in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Stanford Magazine.

The same instinct runs through my own writing. I'm co-author of Beyond Stoicism with Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez, published in 2025 and now out in Spanish, with a Chinese edition on the way. I host The Philosopher's Compass, work as a certified executive coach, and am increasingly drawn to history and the history of ideas, which is the same question over a longer span: how ideas move, and what makes people take them seriously.

Books

Beyond Stoicism (2025) · Live Like a Philosopher, UK edition

Podcast

The Philosopher's Compass, host

Writing

The Stoic Mom, creator and author since 2016 — on Substack since 2022

Previously

Stanford University, interdisciplinary science and major gifts · Journalist and communications strategist covering technology and research

Education

Harvard University, A.B. History & Literature, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa · Stanford University, M.A. History · École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Affiliations

Adobe · Centre for the Study and Application of Stoicism, Royal Holloway · National Association of Science Writers

Coaching

Executive coaching, Co-Active and Stoic in approach

Credentials

Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) · Associate Certified Coach (ACC)