{"id":2780,"date":"2014-07-14T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/posillicocontracting.ipage.com\/suzanneseggerman\/?page_id=2780"},"modified":"2025-02-06T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:45:39","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Suzanne"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2780\" class=\"elementor elementor-2780\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5662fc4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5662fc4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95eb016 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"95eb016\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d0cbb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2d0cbb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Contribute-photo-1024x686.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-3018\" alt=\"A woman with glasses and a black shirt\" srcset=\"https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Contribute-photo-1024x686.png 1024w, https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Contribute-photo-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Contribute-photo-768x515.png 768w, https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Contribute-photo.png 1116w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9fdcf44 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9fdcf44\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Suzanne is a writer and public speaker, and Co-founder of award-winning non-profit, Games for Change. Her first article, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curbed.com\/article\/monster-tenant-bond-street-scam.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Monster Tenant<\/a><\/em>, appeared in New York Magazine on November 14, 2024 and quickly went viral, rising to the top of Apple News a few days later.<\/strong><\/p><p><strong>Suzanne<\/strong> is the Co-founder and President of Games for Change (G4C), called <strong>&#8220;the Sundance of Videogames,&#8221;<\/strong> 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 \u2013 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.<\/p><p><strong>She<\/strong> has given talks around the world: the Sundance Film Festival, <strong>the World Economic Forum, Global Contents Forum Seoul, SXSW, PopTech, TEDx,<\/strong> and the <em>Harvard Human Rights Program<\/em>. Suzanne served as an advisor, juror, and invited expert on a variety of social impact projects including <strong>Microsoft\u2019s<\/strong> Imagine Cup, Scholastic Art and Writing <strong>Awards<\/strong>, the <strong>Knight Foundation\u2019s<\/strong> News Game Awards, and the White House\u2019s National STEM Video Game Challenge. She is the co-founder of <strong>PETLab<\/strong> (<em>Prototyping, Evaluating, Teaching, Learning<\/em>), a public interest design and research lab for interactive media at the New School, launched with the support of <strong>mTV<\/strong> and the <strong>MacArthur Foundation<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0876397 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0876397\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5521de6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5521de6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8cf3c56 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"8cf3c56\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51b96d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"51b96d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Before<\/strong> G4C, Suzanne worked for many years with <strong>Marc Weiss<\/strong> during the founding of Web Lab, a NYC-based <strong>think tank<\/strong> dedicated to using the internet for social change during the early days of the world wide web. \u00a0In her 30s, Suzanne worked in <strong>documentary film<\/strong>, including as\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-728e435 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"728e435\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ee2daf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"5ee2daf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/suzanneseggerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/imagessuzanne.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2921\" alt=\"Two people sitting on a stage with a red circle behind them.\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aaf2d50 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"aaf2d50\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cfcb9ae e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"cfcb9ae\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-994dd68 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"994dd68\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Production<\/strong> Manager on the Stephen Ives\/ Ken Burns&#8217; PBS Series, &#8220;<strong>The West.<\/strong>&#8221; \u00a0After the fall of communism, Suzanne co-produced the first humanitarian aid\/ television event in <strong>Czechoslovakia<\/strong> bringing medical supplies to hospitals around the country with a focus on <strong>neonatal intensive care<\/strong>. Just out of college, she conceived and produced one of the most successful volunteer <em>Amnesty International benefit events<\/em>, <strong>&#8220;The Art of Free Expression,&#8221;<\/strong> a photography exhibition raising money to help free people overseas unjustly imprisoned for their beliefs and <em>ethnicities<\/em>.<br \/><strong><em>Suzanne<\/em> <\/strong>has been a proud <strong>volunteer<\/strong> for Housing Works, a charity supporting homeless people living with <strong>AIDs<\/strong>, and Visiting Neighbors, a non-profit dedicated to helping the elderly in <strong>New York<\/strong> City remain active and independent by providing assistance such as escorts for errands and doctors&#8217; appointments. \u00a0Suzanne is a competitive <strong>Scrabble player<\/strong> but most enjoys playing it with her daughter.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzanne is a writer and public speaker, and Co-founder of award-winning non-profit, Games for Change. 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