Karen Schrier

Biography

Karen Schrier is currently an executive producer at Scholastic, where she spearheads digital strategy initiatives for the Corporate Relations, Corporate Communications, and International divisions. She is also an adjunct professor at Parsons and a doctoral student at Columbia University, where she is studying games, learning, and ethics. Karen is the Games Program co-chair of SIGGRAPH 2009 and is developing and editing a two-volume collection, Ethics and Game Design: Teaching Values Through Play, to be published in 2010. She holds a master’s degree from MIT and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.

Sessions

• The Best of Both Worlds? Design Challenges for Developing Playable Historical Games for Classroom Learning
  Wednesday, June 10

  2:00–3:00

  Inn Wisconsin (2nd floor, East/Southeast)