Susan Oh

•Autodidact civic technologist in AI & blockchain; founder & advisor to benevolent AI & blockchain start ups. •Founder & CEO, MKR AI. •Governing member, Blockchain For Impact (BFI). •Recipient of The Quantum Impact Award #DecadeofWomen in partnership with the UN GA as one of Top Ten Frontier Women in Digital. •2011 AAJA Knight-Poynter Fellow; 2011 AAJA Ford Foundation Fellow. •Nominee for 2010 EDDY award by Edible Communities publications, the 2011 James Beard Foundation Publication of the Year. •Part of the Newsweek International team awarded the 1997 Overseas Press Club Ed Cunningham Award for best reporting from abroad for coverage of the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule. •Led a team to create two winning submissions to the 2006 Media Innovation Awards (MIAs) by Marketing Magazine (Canada) for a top Canadian entertainment conglomerate, for national transmedia campaigns (Molson Canadian, 20th Century Fox). •International media experience with good story sense & knowledge of the editorial process with work published in or aired on major media outlets in Hong Kong, Toronto, London & Chicago. •Successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. •Instrumental in the launch of Nissan.ca’s first branded magazine, Connexion, print & web. •Multicultural sensibilities for effective communication on all levels, with conversational French & Korean language skills. •Pleasantly persistent taskmaster motivated by innovation, storytelling and service.