Suzanne Seggerman is President and Co-founder of Games for Change (G4C) a non-profit and new movement promoting a new genre of videogames: games that engage players in the most pressing issues of our day: climate change, poverty, global conflicts. 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. Suzanne recently won a MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition award. Before co-founding G4C, Suzanne was a Director at NYC-based new media think tank Web Lab, where she co-curated '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 as a documentary film producer for PBS, 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. Suzanne received a BA from Kenyon College and a Masters degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts.

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