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Ann My Thai

Assistant Director

ann.thai@sesameworkshop.org

Ms. Thai leads the Center's strategic partnership efforts with high tech and gaming industries, and oversees organizational growth and strategy. Before joining the 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, Vietnam. Yale University named her a Charles Kao Fellow and a Gordon Grand Senior Fellow for her study of the influence of business 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. She also worked for Apple, developing marketing strategies for the company's professional software applications. 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.

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Ann My Thai spoke on a panel hosted by the New York Chapter of the International Game Developers Association, entitled What Can (and Can't) Games Do?: The Potentials and Limits of Using Games for Learning.

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