With over 25 years of experience, Deepthi Welaratna specializes in translating complex ideas into clear strategies, resonant public-facing work, and frameworks for social progress. As the founder and studio lead of Tiny Little Cosmos, she partners with organizations, municipalities, and change makers to design digital architecture and narrative campaigns that scale.

She previously founded and led Thicket Labs, a civic tech venture featured in USA Today, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, and Fast Company, and incubated by Openbox, Startup Leadership Program, and the Transparent Collective. Prior experience includes stints at WPP-owned Blue State and other creative agencies in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She has designed civic engagement initiatives including California’s first statewide down-ballot progressive voter guide for Courage California, which reached 1 in 17 California voters in its first year, the award-winning Lead With Love campaign for Movement Strategy Center, and a documentary on civil rights for all graduating high school seniors in California for the CA Secretary of State. Past speaking and facilitation engagements include the Magnum Foundation, the National Academy of Medicine, SXSW Interactive, and AIGA, and she has written for the Stanford Social Innovation Review and KQED among other outlets.

Deepthi maintains an active multidisciplinary art practice. She releases music as a solo artist under the name Dark Spring Thunder and as part of the duo Society of the Wing and Scale, with sound and video design featured in venues across San Francisco, Oakland, and New York. She is currently working on her first full-length novel.

Deepthi holds an M.A. in Media Studies from The New School, a B.A. in English from San Jose State University, and supplementary certifications in data analysis, finance, and teaching. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband.