Suzanne Seggerman

Suzanne Seggerman is co-founder and former president of Games for Change (G4C), a nonprofit and new movement promoting a new genre of videogames: games that engage players in the most pressing issues of our day: climate change, poverty and global conflicts. Called "the Sundance of video games" for "socially-conscious game makers," G4C has worked with a variety of high impact partners to foster and shape this new genre, including Microsoft, AMD, MTV and a variety of NGOs.

Seggerman won a MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition Award and has been featured in a variety of press including Time magazine, The New York Times and on ABC News. Before co-founding G4C, Seggerman was a director at NYC-based new media think-tank Web Lab, where she acted as co-curator for "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, she worked in documentary film, including on the Ken Burns/Stephen Ives PBS series "The West" and as co-producer of "Race for Life," a humanitarian aid and documentary film about environmental issues in Eastern Europe.