FORA.tv Speaker - Alex Quinn

Alex Quinn is the Executive Director for Games for Change. Before joining Games for Change, Quinn was Executive Director of the Adult Literacy Media Alliance (ALMA), a project of Education Development Center. ALMA produces the Emmy Award-winning television series, TV411, accompanying website and workbook series, and a range of multimedia literacy and life skills curricula on such topics as health, finance, and family literacy. Quinn served as the principal investigator for a multi-year National Science Foundation funded project to develop, promote, and broadly distribute a television-based basic math curriculum for adults. Quinn has a background in instructional design, video production, and telecommunications policy, and was the executive director for community media centers in Oregon and New York City. Quinn holds a B.A. degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts and an M.A. in Broadcast Communication Arts from San Francisco State University.