World Summit 2011 Presenters: Ann DeMarle

Ann DeMarle is an associate professor and the director of the Emergent Media Center (EMC) at Champlain College. In 2006, she became the first recipient of the Roger H. Perry Endowed Chair, established to support initiatives promoting innovation, change and entrepreneurship at the College. Formerly the founding director of both the Multimedia and Graphic Design and the Electronic Game baccalaureate programs, DeMarle used the endowment to create the EMC. Completed projects include: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Games for Health grant, Massachusetts General's Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology Emergency Response training game, student partnership with America's Army, and an IBM project in virtual worlds. Her current project is BREAKAWAY; an episodic global, online game sponsored by the United Nations Population Fund with the goal of changing behavior around violence against women.

In 2009 DeMarle was elected to the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors. Also in 2009 she was appointed as a member of the National Endowment for the Arts "Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth: Media Arts" panel. In 2004, DeMarle was recognized as an Apple Computer Distinguished Educators. She is the founding director of the Governor's Institute of Vermont in Information Technology for outstanding high school students and has been since the program's inception in 2002. She holds an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. Before entering academia she had a long career in computer graphics that included creating media for corporations such as AT&T, Eastman Kodak, Lotus, Lockheed Martin and IBM Research.

Ann's recent work and related links:

• Emergent Media Center, Champlain College

• BREAKAWAY!