Speaker Gwen Gordon
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Gwen Gordon, MA is an Emmy award winning writer and creative director who began a life of play building Muppets for Sesame Street. She left the “Street” to join an Apple research group at the MIT Media Lab where she built playstations for children. Gwen has been an artist-in-residence in settings ranging from Xerox PARC to San Quentin Prison. She earned her masters degree in philosophy and is a pioneer in the field of adult transformative play, publishing and teaching widely on the subject. Gwen has applied her insights to the design of programs for companies including IDEO and PepsiCo, groups ranging from life coaches to TSA security officers, and for popular films including What the Bleep Do We Know?!, The Story of Stuff, THRIVE, and SPLIT. Gwen currently blogs for Huffington Post and is producing a multi-part documentary PBS series about play called NOW Playing.
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