a voice in Circle Letters

Chielo Mbaezue

CEO · situated-learning researcher

Founder of Drex. Researched legitimate peripheral participation — how people get good at a craft by doing it alongside others — at Stanford's Product Realization Lab. Drex Circles are that idea, online.

I started Drex because I believe your gifts matter & that they’re best brought into the world together, not alone.

You showed up, and that’s enough. I can’t wait to see what you make.

Letters from Chielo Mbaezue

• XChange Models · № 1 What you did for each other. A letter to the eleven who walked the Silk Road runway — on what I watched happen that night, and the Circle that keeps it going. June 23, 2026
• Stanford · № 1 The framework I owed you. The framework I owed a Stanford class after our talk on cultivating your gifts in the age of AI. May 25, 2026