{"id":275,"date":"2013-09-09T15:03:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2013-09-26T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T21:00:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_276\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2013\/09\/gk_thumbnail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2013\/09\/gk_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Koo\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2013\/09\/gk_thumbnail.jpg 256w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/files\/2013\/09\/gk_thumbnail-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gene Koo, Principal<br \/>Good Games Group<\/p><\/div>I am a passionate advocate for using video games and other interactive media to advance organizations&#8217; social mission. Most recently I led the growth of iCivics, Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s educational nonprofit, to become the most successful game-based curriculum in the nation. Under my leadership, iCivics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expanded our portfolio of short-form games to 18<\/li>\n<li>Grew our teacher community to 35,000 using new media marketing<\/li>\n<li>Developed new edtech tools including the nation&#8217;s first online tool for teaching argumentative writing under the Common Core and the first tablet-based system for creating face-to-face simulations<\/li>\n<li>Raised $3.5M in revenues, $2.8M from new donors and partners and grew revenue sources sixfold<\/li>\n<li>Secured and expanded partnerships with such organizations as the Boys &amp; Girls Club of America, PBS, and BrainPop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prior to iCivics, I led Blue State Digital&#8217;s DC-based strategic engagements with such clients as the NAACP, the Entertainment Software Association, and Human Rights Campaign. I conceived and oversaw execution of the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum&#8217;s &#8220;Remember Me&#8221; campaign, which won two Webbys in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>At Harvard&#8217;s Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society, I researched and developed new tools for legal education and helped found Hub2, a program using virtual technologies to encourage public engagement in urban design. That program continues to operate as the Engagement Game Lab at Emerson College.<\/p>\n<p>I also helped found the Center for Legal Aid Education, a national professional development organization that created the nation&#8217;s first online and blended Continuing Legal Education programs to teach practice skills to poverty lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>Better learning is my passion; video games happen to be one of the best ways to achieve it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/genekoo\"><span style=\"font: 80% Arial,sans-serif;color:#0783B6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/img\/webpromo\/btn_in_20x15.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"15\" alt=\"View Gene Koo's LinkedIn profile\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" border=\"0\">View Gene Koo&#8217;s profile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a passionate advocate for using video games and other interactive media to advance organizations&#8217; social mission. Most recently I led the growth of iCivics, Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s educational nonprofit, to become the most successful game-based curriculum in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":276,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}