Suzanne Seggerman
Suzanne is an award-winning non-profit leader and public speaker, with a long career dedicated to helping people and causes across a variety of media and platforms.
Suzanne is an award-winning non-profit leader and public speaker, with a long career dedicated to helping people and causes across a variety of media and platforms.
Suzanne is a writer and public speaker, and Co-founder of award-winning non-profit, Games for Change.
Suzanne is the Co-founder and President of Games for Change (G4C), called “the Sundance of Videogames,” a non-profit supporting new kinds of digital and VR media dedicated to humanitarian and educational causes. As president of G4C, she catalyzed and gave early voice to a new movement – the power of games for social good. She has been featured as an expert in national and international press from the BBC and ABC News to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Forbes and Newsweek.
She has given talks around the world: the Sundance Film Festival, the World Economic Forum, Global Contents Forum Seoul, SXSW, PopTech, TEDx, and the Harvard Human Rights Program. Suzanne served as an advisor, juror, and invited expert on a variety of social impact projects including Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, the Knight Foundation’s News Game Awards, and the White House’s National STEM Video Game Challenge. She is the co-founder of PETLab (Prototyping, Evaluating, Teaching, Learning), a public interest design and research lab for interactive media at the New School, launched with the support of mTV and the MacArthur Foundation.
Before G4C, Suzanne worked for many years with Marc Weiss during the founding of Web Lab, a NYC-based think tank dedicated to using the internet for social change during the early days of the world wide web. In her 30s, Suzanne worked in documentary film, including as
Production Manager on the Stephen Ives/ Ken Burns’ PBS Series, “The West.” After the fall of communism, Suzanne co-produced the first humanitarian aid/ television event in Czechoslovakia bringing medical supplies to hospitals around the country with a focus on neonatal intensive care. Just out of college, she conceived and produced one of the most successful volunteer Amnesty International benefit events, “The Art of Free Expression,” a photography exhibition raising money to help free people overseas unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs and ethnicities.
Suzanne has been a proud volunteer for Housing Works, a charity supporting homeless people living with AIDs, and Visiting Neighbors, a non-profit dedicated to helping the elderly in New York City remain active and independent by providing assistance such as escorts for errands and doctors’ appointments. Suzanne is a competitive Scrabble player but most enjoys playing it with her daughter.