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!"#$%&&'%($)%*+,$-./$0#%&)+$%""+&1++$0.&"%0"$2&-.$3.4"$2&5 First Name Last Name Job Title Company Twitter Website 150 word bio Rachel Mohl Abrahams Program Officer The AVI CHAI Foundation http://www.avichai.org Pam Abrams is a director at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Director Joan Ganz Cooney Center Sesame Workshop dedicated to exploring the healthy Pam Abrams Partnerships and Strategy at Sesame Workshop http://joanganzcooneycenter.org intersection of kids and technology. Matthew Adamec Student Champlain College EMC champlain.edu/emc LaToye is a research associate at the Michael Cohen Group. Prior to joining MCG, LaToye was a Research Analyst at Nickelodeon where she contributed to many award-winning animated series. She earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Film & Animation from Rochester Institute of Technology where she also spent four years in the classroom as a teachers aide. LaToye was awarded an Early Career Fellowship at the Fred Rogers Center where she produces media for under-resourced families of young children. She is also pursing her MA in Developmental Psychology for Educators at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include print, LaToye Adams Research Associate The Michael Cohen Group toyetweets http://www.mcgrc.com broadcast and interactive media for children. Wesley Adams Strategist Purpose wesadamsnyc Michael Agustin co-founded GameSalad with the intention of making game creation a lifestyle accessible to everyone, not simply a tool for the technically literate. In a previous life, Michael designed tools and artificial intelligence (AI) at Edge of Reality for console games such as Pitfall: The Lost Expedition and Sharktale. He was also part of Apple’s Platform Experience Group assigned to work on the MacOS X operating system. Most recently, he was a designer and programmer at Three Rings for the online game Bang! Howdy.Michael earned a master’s degree in entertainment technology from Carnegie Mellon University where his primary research was focused on the rapid ideation and prototyping of games. He received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science, with a minor in Michael Agustin Co-founder & Chief Product Officer GameSalad gamesalad business, from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Glenn Albright – Co-Founder & Director of Applied Research at Kognito InteractiveDr. Glenn L. Albright is the co-founder & Director of Applied Research at Kognito. Dr. Albright is a Psychologist who received his Ph.D. from City University of New York in the area of Experimental Cognition. Dr. Albright’s passion for learning and its application in the field of behavioral health fuels his activities at Kognito where he is involved in the assessment of training simulations as well as facilitating integration of learning theories into Kognitoís human interaction game engine. He is particularly interested in application of recent findings in the field of neuroscience in developing simulations to enhance learning effectiveness and bring about Glenn Albright Director of Applied Research Kognito Interactive permanent changes in behavior David All Chief Creative Officer David All Group davidall Ex-hedge fund manager turned social entrepreneur; I've always lived a gameful life.I am very interested in teaching Life Design as inspired by Game Design.During the Great Depression Dale Carnegie re-framed techniques of salesmanship and public speaking to help people COPE by winning friends, influencing people, and controlling stress. Today, we have plenty ways of winning friends and influencing people, and very few real stressors. Yet many people have a hard time finding MEANING and making DECISIONS in the real world, particularly when faced with abundant choices.Rather than create games to entertain, teach or manipulate, I want to learn what Game Designers know about creating an epic journey and teach everyone how to design a life for themselves using the real world as the playing board.Would you teach me what you know? Would you introduce me to people who might share this Brooke Allen Social Entrepreneur Maple http://www.brookeallen.com interest? !"#$%&&'%($)%*+,$-./$0#%&)+$%""+&1++$0.&"%0"$2&-.$3.4"$2&5 Director Helene Alonso Exhibit Interactives & Media American Museum of Natural History http://amnh.org Danny Alpert Executive Director Kindling Group http://www.kindlinggroup.org Seth Alter just got out of Wesleyan University with a BA in History and a certificate and Jewish and Israel Studies. It's a wide and exciting world out there, and he's looking to get into Seth Alter Student Wesleyan University http://wesleyan.edu the serious game business. Just about every aspect of game d Seth Alter just graduated from Wesleyan with a BA in History (focus in Worlds, Empires, & Encounters), and a certificate in Jewish and Israel Studies, making his degree one of the longest degrees to speak.He has recently finished his first mod, a total- conversion scenario for Civilization V that models ancient Israel and is meant to be an educational tool. He is very interested in developing serious games in whatever job people think he is Seth Alter Student Wesleyan University wesleyan.edu qualified for. Journalist, documentary and new media producer Chelo Alvarez- Stehle has worked for over 13 years exposing stories of human trafficking through her creative and outreach work. In Japan, she worked on documentaries for NHK and became Spain’s El Mundo daily correspondent and continued working for the paper after moving to California. Canal+ Spain turned one of her print reportages on trafficking in the Himalayas into TIN GIRLS documentary film, and was the interviewer, assistant director and consultant. In Nepal, Chelo co-founded the Masala Project, an income generation spice factory for trafficking survivors.Her latest short documentary Sold in America: A Modern-Day Tale of Sex Slavery, is currently screening in film festivals worldwide. She is producer/director for Sands of Silence: Fighting Sexual Slavery and Trafficking, a transmedia project that includes a feature documentary film, SANDS OF SILENCE: A Personal Documentary and Journey into the Trafficking of Women, and the digital strand Chelo Alvarez-Stehle New Media Producer innerLENS Productions sandsofsilence SOS_SLAVES: Changing the Trafficking Game. Amresh is an Assistant Professor in the College of Technology and Innovation and is leading the Computer Gaming curriculum initiatives at Arizona State University, where he founded the Computer Gaming Certificate and the Camp Game summer program. In the past he worked for Ronin Entertainment as Graphics Software Engineer known for Star Wars: Force Commander and Bruce Lee Quest of the Dragon. He is the author of Unreal Game Development, a popular book used for teaching game development skills for high school students. He has given numerous talks on using games in the class room for enhancing math and science learning. He is currently researching on how to improve learning of math word problems Ashish Amresh Assistant Professor Arizona State University http://interactive.asu.edu using games. !"#$%&&'%($)%*+,$-./$0#%&)+$%""+&1++$0.&"%0"$2&-.$3.4"$2&5 My field of study is educational media and design. For instance, through a project that is currently funded by the Helios Education Foundation I am creating online science professional development courses that use technologies appropriate to the subject matter, e.g. virtual worlds for science inquiry. The purpose is to provide innovative, high quality instruction to STEM teachers in rural counties in Arizona. I am also deeply involved in nonprofits & emerging technologies; my dissertation work was an action research project focusing on technology outreach to formerly homeless people, and I am a longtime member of the Nonprofit Commons in Second Life. Finally, I have recently become Special Assistant to the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction, for Games-Based Education. As such, I am working on a new and highly innovative collaborative math game based on an approach designed by Superintendent John Huppenthal of the Arizona Department of Education. The math game is the first of a wide range of planned educational games for Arizona schools. The Research and Design initial game is thus one for which we in Arizona have high Sandra Andrews Games-Based Education Arizona State University http://asu.edu hopes: please stay tuned. Nyssa Arcos Evans is a 7th grade Globaloria/ Technology teacher at East Austin College Prep Academy in Austin, TX. Established by the World Wide Workshop Foundation, Globaloria is the first social learning network for game design in which students design web-games focused on math, science, and civics. Prior to joining EACPA, Nyssa taught K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th grade bilingual. During her tenure with Pflugerville ISD, Nyssa participated in a Model Technology Pilot utilizing Promethean Technologies in the classroom. Students achieved high levels of academic success in math and science, due largely in part to the use of technology. In addition, she participated in a pilot of the ST Math & Music program of the MIND Research Institute. In 2009, Nyssa was one of thirteen teachers nationwide to be named a Great Books Great Teacher by the Great Books Foundation. She holds a B.S. from Texas Christian University and an M.S. in Education Media Design & Nyssa Arcos Evans Globaloria Teacher East Austin College Prep Academy Technology from Full Sail University. Wil Arndt Principal/Creative Director mod7 Annette Arndt http://mod7.com/games Adrienne is a family and community development coordinator with 20 years experience working in schools. She is passionate Adrienne Arthurs Creative Director Excite-ed joinexciteed http://www.excite-ed.co.uk about supporting children and their families. Jodi Asbell-Clarke Project Director TERC http://terc.edu Michelle Aubrecht will soon graduate from the Ohio State University with a Master’s degree from the Art Education Department. For the past few years, Michelle has studied game- based learning and game design. Her thesis work focused on how to support teachers in using games, specifically using Gamestar Mechanic, in an elementary art classroom.