Karen Sideman
Biography
Karen Sideman works for Games For Change as director of projects for PETLab, the organization’s prototype creation engine. Karen maintains a parallel career as a freelance interactive designer specializing in educational play, currently helping create climate change awareness and action materials for the Sally Ride Science Club and edgy Flash games for This Is Pop. She has been involved in digital interactive design for about as long as there has been a field to be involved in, and could always be found at the most groundbreaking firms — such as Edwin Schlossberg, Inc., and R|GA Interactive — whenever the really interesting stuff was happening. She spent a good portion of the dot.com boom years as creative director of the team that built Sesame Street Online.