Emily Reardon is an Emmy Award-winning designer, inventor of multiple patented technologies, creative technologist, educator-researcher, and emerging artist whose work explores how digital systems shape how we grow, connect, and participate in the world. Blending computational design with learning theory, storytelling, creative practice, and impact research she develops public media and technologies that support wellbeing and 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 the ethics of emerging technologies as well as participatory design and research, she explored how public media, education, and civic systems can be designed to invite curiosity, collaboration, and meaningful participation.
Emily is currently a Fellow at the Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has taught design for learning at New York University Steinhart School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and computational art at the School of Visual Arts. She is an MFA candidate at the City University of New York, 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, winter sports, Virginia Woolf, gardens, and the Libby public library app.