Jasmin Ali-Diaz
Hardware Engineer
Jasmin Ali-Diaz is a creative technologist with a background in engineering and theatre. With a life-long passion for location-based entertainment, she is always excited to find opportunities to integrate technology with tangible interactions to create fun and meaningful experiences. Before attending the ETC, she received her Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing and Design Engineering from Northwestern University.
Anna Kim
UI/UX Designer
Anna is a user experience designer devoted to the implementation of ideas to create a positive social impact in the direction of equity and diversity. She enjoys combining her technical background with her artistic skills to create innovative solutions. Possessing a positive attitude and a growth-oriented mindset, she is constantly seeking opportunities to expand her knowledge and skills as a designer.
Yifei (Fay) Li
Procuder
Fay is a multidisciplinary artist and producer with a background in interactive media and game development. She is passionate about creating engaging narrative experiences across digital platforms.
Devika Santosh
Narrative Designer
With a passion for creative technologies, Devika is a narrative and experience designer on this project. She blends storytelling and design, to craft meaningful user journeys and narratives. She also has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, with a specialization in AI and ML.
Sarah Wille
Producer
Sarah Wille did her undergrad at William & Mary, where she majored in computer science with a minor in math while also pursuing music and art. She’s hoping to go into post-production, specifically in video editing/special effects. For this project, Sarah is currently working as a producer.
Ruzhang (Jim) Zhao
Technical Artist
Jim is a technical artist/game developer. He focuses on visualizing and creating immersive virtual worlds using his skills of Rigging, VFX, Tool Development and Procedural Generation.
Instructor
Shirley Saldamarco
Shirley Saldamarco is an entrepreneur, a producer and an educator. She has a background in theatre from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and Producer for national programming at WQED-TV. As President of Interactive Media Productions, the company she founded in 1982, she produces a variety of Broadcast and Non-broadcast programs.