Suzanne Seggerman

Who was Suzanne Seggerman?

Suzanne Seggerman is a consultant and public speaker on games and new media for social impact. She is co-founder and former president of Games for Change, a non-profit that promotes and supports the emerging uses of video games in the public interest. She ran G4C from 2004 until her resignation in 2010, acting as the curator of the Games for Change Festival.

Seggerman is also co-founder and former co-director of PETLab, a research lab at The New School in New York City which is focused on the creation and assessment of games about social issues.

Before founding Games for Change, Seggerman was a director at new media think tank Web Lab, where she worked since its inception, with its founder Marc Weiss. While at Web Lab in 2002, she co-curated the art exhibition "Provocations", featuring social-issue games by Natalie Jeremijenko, Natalie Bookchin, Michael Mateas, Brody Condon, Tamiko Thiel, and Anne-Marie-Schleiner.

Before joining Web Lab, Seggerman was a documentary filmmaker and producer, working on a number of PBS and independent films, including as production manager on Steve Ives/ Ken Burns, "The West" and as co-producer on "Race for Life," a documentary and humanitarian aid about the environmental effects upon perinatal care in Eastern Europe after the fall of communism.