“Fantasy Neighborhood”

Joe Chung is a creative technologist and educator who is interested in technologies that help people learn and connect with each other better. A graduate of MFA Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design and MA Instructional Technology and Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, Joe has experimented with VR/AR, sensors and visualizations to help learners bridge the gap between information and knowledge. Joe is also a trained educator, specializing in secondary school mathematics and computer education.

Eric Lewis is the Engineer Of Things at Power Home Remodeling where he focuses on cyber security. He is also a Hacker, Programmer and Maker. Board member of DEFCON 610, a member of TOOOL, and 2600. When he is not breaking things, he likes to teach others programming, fixing, hacking and other useful skills.

Michelle Lipira is a multifaceted senior UX designer creating consumer and business solutions on the Adobe Fonts Team. She collaborates across the organization to develop scalable solutions designed to work across multiple platforms.

In her previous role at GoPro, she was able to unite her passions of travel, sport and photography to lead the design of multiple cameras from concept to launch. With the advent of the smartphone, Michelle was one of the first designers at Motorola to work with Android. Motorola is where Michelle started her career as a designing iconography for feature phones in domestic and international markets. Michelle has a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communications from the Art Institutes.

Will Turnage has spent the past 20 years helping big companies and small startups design and create digital products. He currently leads technology at I&CO in Brooklyn, NY, and prior to that he worked at places like R/GA NY and Sony Music. Outside of work, he's an Advisor to several startups, has served as a mentor for Techstars and AFSE and has launched a line of mobile cooking apps.

Valerie Casasanto is the Outreach Lead for NASA’s ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2) mission at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. She designs and implements a myriad of programs to help educate and engage young people, especially girls and underrepresented students in ICESat-2’s science. She integrates the arts into her programs to inspire and engage audiences in NASA Earth Science.