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Interactive Telecommunications

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Thesis Seminar

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BA, Middlebury College
PhD, Harvard University

Biography

Kathleen is currently a media consultant focusing on digital media strategy, conceptual design, and development. She worked at Viacom as the V.P. and Creative Director of Viacom Interactive Services (VIS), which was created in 1995 to develop new media businesses, brands, and products for Viacom companies, such as Blockbuster, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount, Showtime, Sundance Channel, and VH1. Prior to Viacom, Kathleen worked at Paramount's Media Kitchen in California as an Executive Producer/Designer working with AT&T to develop ITV pilots with Paramount TV and Madison Square Garden; with Paramount Motion Pictures to create interactive story world CD-ROMs based on Paramount films, and CD-ROM and handheld device travel content based on Simon & Schuster's Frommer's Travel Guides.

Before joining Paramount, Kathleen worked with two partners to design the SimTown children's CD-ROM title for Maxis/Electronic Arts and worked with a consortium of seven art museums, coordinated by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to design and develop an interactive kiosk for museum visitors. She also worked at Bank Street College's Center for Children and Technology in New York City as the Multimedia Director where, with funding from RCA, GE, and Intel, she designed and developed an electronic field trip to the Maya ruins in Palenque, Mexico using experimental digital video interactive technology. Palenque was created as a prototype for interactive TV-based, fun learning games for children to use at home as a companion to the "Voyage of the Mimi I and II" PBS television series, which were developed in parallel by Bank Street College. Kathleen has given numerous presentations on digital media around the world; participated as a judge at many interactive festivals; and consulted with a range of companies.