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Nonny de la Peña

Director, Narrative and Emerging Media ProgramArizona State University

Biography

Nonny de la Peña is the program director of ASU’s Narrative and Emerging Media program, where she leads a best-in-class research and graduate program with a focus on new narratives developed using emerging media technologies in the areas of arts, culture and nonfiction. She comes to the new Los Angeles-based center -- a joint undertaking by The Sidney Poitier New American Film School, in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication -- with more than 20 years of experience as an award-winning writer, director and producer in virtual, augmented and extended reality, film, print and television.

De la Peña has been on the cover of the Wall Street Journal magazine as a WSJ “Technology Innovator of the Year” and called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget, The Guardian and others. Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative” for her pioneering work in immersive journalism.