What a delightful team!

Jason Nunes

Our resident human-centered design expert. Jason has over two decades of experience designing pretty much every interactive thing you can think of including TV and mobile device interfaces, apps, games, websites, kiosks, desktop applications, and broadcast production tools. He’s worked in diverse creative leadership roles on cutting-edge projects across multiple industries including media and entertainment, ecommerce, fintech, education, museums and cultural institutions, enterprise software, and consumer products and electronics. Jason’s approach includes a combination of design thinking and human-centered research practices.

 
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Dawn Siff

Have you ever noticed how some people sound effortless, engaging — you can’t help but listen — or click? While others — not so much? Dawn’s spent her career crafting narratives that are clear, concise and captivating. She comes up with creative ways to tell stories across different platforms, to motivate and inspire people. She loves helping others do the same — skills she’s honed over 20 years working working in journalism, advertising, marketing and activism.

Featured in New York Magazine and Fast Company for her innovative storytelling, Dawn loves to help individuals, teams and brands find their own voice and tell their own story.

 
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David Gochfeld

David Gochfeld creates narrative experiences at the intersection of the real and virtual, blending theatrical techniques with cutting edge immersive technology.  His pioneering work bringing live performance into virtual reality has appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival ("To Be With Hamlet") and the Future of Storytelling Summit ("Holojam in Wonderland"). He has presented other narrative and interactive pieces at festivals and theaters around the world, and is a frequent speaker on the application of theatrical techniques to VR storytelling. Currently he produces and leads experience design for Alive in Plasticland, creating live performances in social VR.  He won an Emmy award for his work on Zero Days VR, and co-created FutureMate, a transmedia immersive theater piece (winner: StoryCode Transmedia Hackathon; nominated: New York Innovative Theatre Award.)  He holds a Masters from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab (2012), and teaches in the computer science department at NYU.