" Suzanne Seggerman is President and Co-founder of Games for Change (G4C) the primary non-profit and international nexus for those interested in using digital games to address pressing contemporary issues - from global conflict to poverty, human rights to climate change. Called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially-responsible game makers", G4C is working with a variety of high impact partners to foster and shape this new genre, including Microsoft, mTV, the United Nations and and a variety of NGOs and universities. Suzanne has been featured as one of twenty successful change-makers profiled in Julia Moulden's We Are the New Radicals, published by McGraw Hill in 2008; on Politics and News' list of Women Leading in Technology and Politics. She was named one of Contribute Magazine's 2007 10 Tech Revolutionaries, was selected as one of 30 Pop!Tech Visionaries of 2008, and was featured on the Sundance Channel in their ""New Revolutionaries"" series in 2009. She is a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Award - selected as one of 17 out of more than 1000 applicants. Before co-founding G4C, Suzanne was a Director at NYC-based new media think tank Web Lab, where she co-curated the show "Provocations", the first national exhibition featuring digital games about social-issues. Her background in online media includes community-oriented interactive environments and the design of non-traditional games, which earned her awards from New Voices New Visions and Communications Arts. Before her involvement with new media technologies, 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 received a BA from Kenyon College and a Masters from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Suzanne is a nationally-ranked Scrabble player."
