Dr. Gigi L. Johnson
Executive Director
Dr. Johnson helps "connect the digital dots." As a futurist and socio-technologist, she helps organizations and individuals understand how technology may intertwine and create change in the future.
At Maremel, she runs a variety of programs in research, education, and media, exploring changing technology environments and the related effects on social change. She also has been teaching technology transformation classes and workshops for graduate students and/or executives at UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of Navarra in Spain, Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi, and UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Her work at Maremel has expanded into user group education about technology empowerment, including producing the 2009 UCLA Technology and Aging Conference and distributing three online video learning channels. Through Maremel, Dr. Johnson also produces music content, connecting new audiences to traditional music.
Until late 2005, she was Executive Director of the Entertainment and Media Management Institute at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Other past endeavors have included running two Video-on-Demand cable, satellite, and online channels for kids at Studio 4 Networks and nearly a decade in media finance at Bank of America in New York and Los Angeles.
She is a member of the Interactive Peer Group of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, AERA, ISTE, and the Academy of Management. She also advises senior management and boards at several digital media companies, as well as speaks extensively as a socio-technology futurist around the world at conferences on media, education, and society.
Dr. Johnson has an EdD in education and media studies from Fielding Graduate University, an MBA from UCLA Anderson School, and a BA in Cinema-TV Production from the University of Southern California.
gigi@maremel.com
Twitter: @maremel
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