Game Education Summit North America

Ann My Thai leads the Cooney Center's strategic partnership efforts with high tech and digital game industries, and oversees organizational growth and strategy. She is also the lead author of Game Changer: Investing in Digital Play to Advance Children's Learning and Health. Before joining the Cooney Center, she served as a consultant for Education for Development, Vietnam, a nonprofit organization that develops informal educational programming for disadvantaged children in Ho Chi Minh City. Yale University named her a Charles Kao Fellow and a Gordon Grand Senior Fellow for her study of the influence of private sector development in the region on local nonprofits. She went on to coordinate voting rights and education reform efforts at the NAACP Legal & Educational Defense Fund before pursing her master's degree, and has worked for Apple, developing marketing strategies for the company's professional software applications. She has served on the board of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, and was selected by the World Economic Forum's Young Arab Leaders to be an Arab & American Business Fellow in 2008. Ms. Thai received her bachelor's degree in Political Science from Yale University and a master's degree in Business Administration from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.