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Katia Farage has over 10 years of experience in graphic design and visual communication and is currently a grad student at the University of Washington pursuing a Masters of Communication in Digital Media. She holds a BA in Graphic Design and Advertising from the Holy Spirit University, Lebanon. Throughout her career, Katia worked with clients in various industries both in the Middle East and the United States. Her interests and expertise include advertising, marketing, print, and digital production. In her spare time, Katia likes to work on Jewelry design and to play with her baby. You can see her portfolio here: konceptus.net

A Communications Creative with a strong passion for Visual Arts, Filiz has over ten years of experience as an Account Executive for multinational corporations in Turkey and Europe. She hold a BFA in Cinematography; a Master’s Degree in Public Relations; and pursuing her second Masters in Digital Media at the University of Washington to leverage digital media in business, as well as to explore new ways of strategic content production and distribution. Visit Filiz Efe’s portfolio site at filizefe.com.

An expert in the digital social ecosystem, from the blogosphere to the Twitterverse, Gill’s experience encompasses both business and academia, with a interest in information design and user experience. She has been teaching digital media subjects at Seattle area colleges and universities since 1998, focusing on user experience and digital storytelling; she is also a universal access advocate.

She has consulted on web projects at Boeing, AT&T Wireless, Microsoft, and SAFECO. Prior to making the transition to digital media employment in 1994, she also worked in public affairs in the forest products and agricultural sectors in Washington, Oregon, and the Northeast.

She has a Master’s degree in agricultural economics from Virginia Tech (1979) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Georgia (1977). She spends weekends teaching novices how to ride motorcycles.

Philip N. Howard (BA Toronto, MSc London School of Economics, PhD Northwestern) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. He directs the NSF-funded World Information Access Project (wiaproject.org), and his book The Internet and Islam: The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. His current research and teaching interests include the role of new information technologies in the political communication systems of advanced democracies, and the role of new information technologies in the social development of poor countries. He is the author of New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), about how digital information technologies are used to manipulate public opinion in the United States. This book was awarded the 2007 CITASA Best Book prize from the American Sociological Association and the 2008 Best Book prize from the International Communication Association. He has edited Society Online: The Internet in Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004, with Steve Jones) and the Handbook of Internet Politics (London: Routledge, 2008, with Andrew Chadwick). He has authored numerous journal articles examining the role of new information and communication technologies in politics and social development, including pieces in the American Behavioral Scientist, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and New Media & Society. He has worked on several National Science Foundation projects, serving on the advisory board of the Survey2000 and Survey2001 Projects, co-managing a project about Information and Communication Technologies in Central Asia, and directing the World Information Access Project. This latest research project—supported by both the NSF and Intel’s People and Practices Group—investigates patterns of technology diffusion between and within developing countries. He teaches courses on research methods, politics online, and international development. Howard has been a Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project in Washington D.C., the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto.

Kristina supported development of the TEDxSeattle web site. She works in outreach and instructional resources in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington. While working as a journalist in print media at The Bellingham Herald and The Spokesman-Review, she began noticing a shift in newspapers to digital media and wanted to learn more. In 2006, she started the UW Master of Communication in Digital Media. She graduated in 2009 and now spends time working with future communicators on digital media skills that will give them an edge in the work place and maintaining communication channels for the department, such as the e-newsletter, web site and social media such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.