Faculty Member, Interactive Arts and Media
Associate Professor
About
Ms. Shannon holds an M.A. from New York University and a B.A. from DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois. She is currently a tenured faculty member at Columbia College Chicago where she developed and is now the coordinator of the Game Design Programming Concentration major. Before joining the faculty of Columbia College in 2003, Ms. Shannon served two years as an Information Technology Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize, Central America and taught in the Computer Science Department at the University of Belize.
Her current research focuses on finding new and innovative ways to attract women and minorities to careers in computer science by developing new ideas on the use of technology and new forms of serious gaming. She has published and presented several papers on the subject and has received two grant to further her work. She is committed to public service as evidenced by her volunteer work in Belize for the Peace Corps and Namibia for World Teach.
Previously, in her 30 year career in Information Systems, Ms. Shannon was the Vice President of Institutional Operations for the New York City investment management firm Neuberger Berman, a senior executive for SEI Corporation, and the president of her own management consulting firm which she started in 1996.
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