Victoria A. Prizzia
FOUNDER + PRINCIPAL
Victoria is a cultural producer, interpretive planner, environmental storyteller, and social impact strategist working across museums, public space, digital media, nonprofit initiatives, and games.
She is the founder of Habithèque Inc., the Habithèque Blue & Green Fund, and Blue Revolution Games — three connected vessels for a water-centered body of work that uses storytelling, experience design, beauty, and play to help people feel connected enough to care, participate, and act.
Her work invites people into complex issues through beauty, wonder, joy, innovation, and play — creating emotionally safe pathways from awareness to action.
Across her work, Victoria uses water as a lens for understanding environmental justice, public health, ecological systems, aquatic access, child well-being, climate resilience, and civic imagination.
Her guiding question is simple:
How can storytelling and experience design help people feel connected enough to care?
Recognition and Field Leadership
Victoria’s work has received recognition from organizations across the museum, environmental, design, public history, and social-impact fields.
Recent recognition includes the American Association for State and Local History Award of Excellence for POOL, the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Making an Impact Award, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council Special Places Award, a Mid-Atlantic Emmy nomination connected to WHYY’s coverage of POOL, and Diversity in Aquatics’ peer-nominated award for leadership and organizational excellence.
Victoria has also served as a featured speaker for water, museum, education, public history, and environmental audiences, including the Pool Horizons Summit in Barcelona, the Pennsylvania Statewide Watershed Conference, the UPenn Water Center, the Connected Learning Summit, and other national and international convenings.
She has taught and lectured at institutions including Johns Hopkins University, Drexel University, the University of the Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Hawaii.
Victoria holds an MFA in Museum Exhibition Planning and Design and an MA in Education, Critical and Creative Thinking.
Water, wonder, justice, and play.
Victoria’s work lives at the meeting place of water, wonder, justice, and play. It asks us to imagine a different kind of public engagement — one that does not numb people with crisis or separate them from the living world, but invites them back into relationship.
Because people do not protect what they are merely told about.
They protect what they feel connected to.
AJ McCormick
COMMUNICATION LEADS
AJ McCormick is Habithèque's Communications Lead, which means they're the reason you see us mid-scroll, and, more often than not, the voice behind the email landing in your inbox. They studied at Sarah Lawrence College before earning a Master of Legal Studies from Seton Hall, a pivot that makes more sense once you realize both degrees taught them the same thing: how to build an argument, then figure out how to make people actually care about it.
AJ reads about 200 books a year, a pace that suggests either superhuman discipline or a mild inability to be doing anything else. Either way, it means they're rarely without a strong opinion on narrative - what makes a story land, what makes people stop scrolling, what makes them stay.
Outside of Habithèque, you could find AJ speaking at conferences and protests about the importance of intersectionality and equality for all.
When they're not posting, writing captions, or finishing book number 140, they're probably starting book 141 and cuddling with their pets Raven and Lilith.
“Not only is Victoria an incredible creative visionary, she has the clearest, most direct, and swift communication skills of any leadership I have worked under in the creative field.”
Current Work:
Otter Planet™ + Blue Revolution Games™
Expanding play-to-protect gaming as a pathway for child well-being, water literacy, nature connection, and environmental stewardship.
Guardian Water Lens, known in-world as the Alchemy Goggles
A mixed-reality water-awareness experience within Otter Planet that helps children and families see the hidden life of water systems.
The Floating Water Workshop
A river-based platform for freshwater awareness, ecosystem restoration, urban wildlife, play, and discovery on the Delaware River.
POOL Traveling Exhibition
Expanding the reach of POOL: A Social History of Segregation through traveling formats and public engagement opportunities.
The Blue & Green Fund
Supporting education-focused storytelling, public engagement, and real-world water protection initiatives.
“Nature always gave me something I didn’t find elsewhere — complete acceptance. My work is about giving that feeling back: through water, story, beauty, play, and experiences that help people remember they belong to the living world.”
Jackson Rane
DIGITAL CONTENT PRODUCER
Jackson Rane is Habitheque’s resident digital content producer and visual storyteller. When he’s not designing, he’s animating and when he’s not animating, he’s editing video. If he’s doing none of the three, he’s either asleep or something is wrong. Jackson studied film at Wesleyan University, where he received high honors for his undergraduate comedy thesis, Trust Me, My Mom’s a Therapist.
Before moving to Philadelphia in 2025, he worked in his hometown of Los Angeles as an editing instructor, social media manager, and motion graphics designer. Jackson often uses satire to Trojan-horse themes of vulnerability, interpersonal connection, and emotional attunement (or the lack thereof) into his work. This is likely the product of growing up in a family of mental health professionals, as well as his own experience as a crisis hotline listener.
As a baby, Jackson was gifted an animal encyclopedia by his grandparents and began feverishly drawing every creature he could find. More than 20 years later, he continues to bridge his love of illustration and animals as part of the Otter Planet team.
In Memory of Reggie
February 19, 2008 — May 11, 2021
Reggie remains part of the Habithèque story: a beloved companion, quiet teacher, and reminder of the deep emotional bond between humans, animals, and the living world.
His presence continues to echo through Victoria’s work — in its tenderness, loyalty to life, and belief that connection is where care begins.