DANA STEINHOFF
Education
Trust.IT: Small Business Cohort | 2019
Center for Women & Enterprise, Burlington, Vermont
M.F.A. in Emergent Media | August 2018
Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont
Thesis: “The Responsibility of the Video Game Developer: Moving towards gender equity in the video game industry.” Champlain College Gallery exhibit May-August 2018.
B.A. in Liberal Arts | 2010
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Major: History and Women’s Studies
Thesis: “Ms. Magazine and the Reversal of Gendered Advertising.”
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Faculty
Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont
Game Production 101 | Fall 2021 [in-person]
Interaction Design 220 | Spring 2021 [remote]
Overall score: 4.7
Excellent Course/Excellent Teacher score: 4.9, Belonging/Inclusion score: 5
[course remote recordings available upon request]
Interaction Design 110 | Fall 2020 [remote]
Overall score: 4.6
Excellent Course/Excellent Teacher score: 5, Belonging/Inclusion score: 5
[course remote recordings available upon request]
Teaching Assistant
Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont
TA in Publication Design | Fall 2021 [in-person]
Program Co-Director
Rad Studio | Summer 2019 - 2021 [remote]
Summer game development incubator, Rad Magpie, Burlington, Vermont
Program Director
Girls Make Games, a program by Rad Magpie | Summer 2019, 2021 [in-person / remote]
Summer program for girls grades 6-8, Rad Magpie, Burlington, Vermont
Teaching Faculty
Governor’s Institute of Technology, Burlington, Vermont | Summer 2019, 2021 [in-person / remote]
Focus: Interactive Narrative
Co-Instructor
“ADVANCE Entrepreneurship” course, Gap Labs in partnership with UN Consulate | May 2021 [remote]
Focus: Human-Centered Design for Business
Presentations and Public Speaking
Roundtable Speaker | August 2021
VCET Presents a Conversation with Senator Patrick Leahy, Burlington, Vermont
Featured Speaker | August 2021
“Rad Magpie x Financial Sustainability: A Rebuttal.”
Rad Magpie Annual End of Summer Party, Virtual / Burlington, Vermont
Guest Speaker | June 2021
Women Business Owners Network Spring Conference, Virtual / Burlington, Vermont
Panelist: “Women in Gaming” | February 2021
Black River Innovation Campus presents “Women & Leadership: Celebrating Voices in Tech” Conference,
Virtual / Springfield, Vermont
Guest Speaker | December 2019
Tech Communities Holiday Party, Burlington, Vermont
The Authenticity Art Project Featured Speaker | November 2016
Shelburne Museum, PechaKucha Night Vol. 22, Shelburne, Vermont
Professional History
Game Design Consultant | March 2021 - now
Population Media Center, South Burlington, Vermont
Executive Director | January 2019 - now
Rad Magpie, Burlington, Vermont
Judge | December 2021
Congressional App Challenge
UX Designer | March - August 2021
Project mHealth - Android app [Contracted - University of Vermont]
Project Manager | January - October 2020
PanicMechanic - Android app [Contracted - Allostatech]
Creative Director | April - August 2019
Cocoknight - PC Video Game [Contracted - The Make a Wish Foundation]
Creative Director | September 2018 - August 2019
Sigiriya - PC Video Game [In-house Project]
Graduate Fellow | January 2017 – August 2018
Champlain College Emergent Media Center, Burlington, Vermont
Creative Director | May 2017 - August 2018
BREAKAWAY! Mobile - Android serious game
Project Management | August 2016 - May 2017
MakerLab, Emergent Media Center
Managing Director and Cofounder | June 2012 - July 2015
Exquisite Corpse Company, Brooklyn, New York
Producer | 2013
Odd.A.See - Immersive theater
Producer | 2014
WareART:SubTerra - Theater / fashion show