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Suzanne Seggerman is President and Co-Founder of Games for Change,a non-profit which seeks to harness the extraordinary power of video games to address the most pressing issues of our day, including poverty, education, human rights, global conflict and climate change. G4C acts as a voice for the transformative power of games, bringing together organizations and individuals from the nonprofit sector, government, journalism, academia, industry and the arts, to grow the sector and provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and resources. Through this work, Games for Change promotes new kinds of games that engage contemporary social issues in meaningful ways to foster a more just, equitable and tolerant society. Suzanne has been featured on CNN, ABC News and in the New York Times, and speaks at conferences around the world, including Global Contents Forum Seoul, Sundance Film Festival and PopTech. Suzanne was recently named among the 2008 “Women Leading in Technology in Politics and Policy" and won the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Award in 2007. Before G4C, Suzanne was a Director at NYC-based think tank Web Lab, where she co-curated the show "Provocations" for the 2002 Florida Film Festival, the first national exhibition featuring digital games about social-issues. Her online work earned her awards from New Voices New Visions and Communications Arts. Before her involvement with new media, she worked as a documentary film producer for PBS, including on Ken Burns/Stephen Ives PBS series "The West" and as Co-producer of "Race For Life," a humanitarian aid and documentary film about Eastern Europe. Suzanne plays serious Scrabble. | ||
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Alex Quinn is the Executive Director for Games for Change. Before joining Games for Change, Alex was Executive Director of the Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA), a project of Education Development Center. ALMA produces the Emmy Award-winning television series, TV411, accompanying website and workbook series, and a range of multimedia literacy and life skills
curricula on such topics as health, finance, and family literacy. Alex
served as the principal investigator for a multi-year National Science
Foundation funded project to develop, promote, and broadly distribute a
television-based basic math curriculum for adults. Alex has a background
in instructional design, video production, and telecommunications policy,
and was the executive director for community media centers in Oregon and
New York City. He holds a B.A. degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts and an M.A. in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University. For more information, email Alex Quinn at alex [at-sign-here] gamesforchange.org. |
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Asi Burak is an award-winning Executive Producer who co-founded Impact Games. The company has developed the internationally acclaimed PeaceMaker and Play the News platforms. Burak also serves as a consultant to private and public sector organizations, such as Newsweek, McCann Erickson and Games for Change, around the development of games to promote messaging, content or learning objectives. Asi is often interviewed by international media, and he and his partner Eric Brown are asked to speak at conferences and institutions including The Sundance Film Festival, The Skoll Forum, Aspen Idea Festival, The Serious Games Summit, The US Army War College and more. Prior to ImpactGames, Asi Burak was VP of Marketing and Product at Axis Mobile (acquired 2008), where he helped introduce pioneering location-based mobile games to a worldwide market (Asia, Europe, U.S.) while partnering with companies such as Motorola and MTV. He holds a Masters of Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon and a BA in Design from the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. | ||
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Mark Smith is the programs associate at Games for Change. He received his bachelors at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan for film and video production and enjoys working in both new and old medium - His films have been screened in several festivals across the country. For more information, email Mark Smith at mark [at-sign-here] gamesforchange.org. | ||
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Ellen Scott is Special Projects Consultant at Games for Change, a Assistant Professor of 4-Dimensional Design at Pratt Institute, and an artist working in digital media. Her experience in online media spans art and commerce, including interactive design, usability testing, and creative production. After seven years in strategic consulting and software project management, Ellen focused her career at the intersection of art and technology; she has worked on a variety of cross-media projects for Digital Innovations Group since 1999. She is the founder and Executive Director of Smartspaces.org, a non-profit presenting art in the windows of vacant spaces. Ellen received a BA in Politics from Princeton University and an MFA in Digital Art from Pratt Institute. For more information, email Ellen Scott at ellen [at-sign-here] gamesforchange.org.
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Hsing Wei is the Reblogger and News Editor for Games for Change. Her work has spanned from strategy consulting in the private sector, to venture philanthropy, and media production. She continues to develop new content, programs, and partnerships for a range of for-profit and non-profit clients. Her most recent research focuses on collaborative, interactive media. Hsing received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and Masters from the Kennedy School at Harvard University. For more information, email Hsing Wei at news [at-sign-here] gamesforchange.org. | ||
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