Emily Reardon is an Emmy-Award winning designer, researcher, creative technologist, and emerging artist whose work explores how digital systems shape how we learn, connect, and participate in the world. Blending computational design with storytelling, pedagogy, and creative practice, she develops public media and technologies that expand civic imagination.
Her inquiry grows from her long-tenure at Sesame Street, where she designed emergent technology experiences for play and learning for children, families, and classrooms worldwide. Working across play and narrative design, emerging technologies, and participatory research, she explored how public media, education, and civic systems can be designed to invite curiosity, collaboration, and meaningful participation.
Emily has taught emerging technology design at New York University Graduate School of Education and computational art at the School of Visual Arts. She is currently a Fellow at the Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College and Visiting Scholar at Columbia University. She is also an MFA candidate at the City University of New York. She holds an MA in Education, Communication, and Technology from New York University and a BA in Art/Semiotics as well as English and American Literature (with honors) from Brown University.
She loves public systems, swimming, printmaking, papaya, Virginia Woolf, gardens, and the Libby public library app.