Shannon Frederick Meneses

Executive Producer

Shannon Meneses is Learning Game Network’s Executive Producer. She has worked in the educational technology industry for over 20 years and has managed a varying degree of projects – ranging from engaging and playful games and interactive applications, animated educational series, to content rich websites with bustling community features and teacher dashboards. Before working at Learning Games Network, she was a Senior Producer at FableVision Studios and a Producer at Six Red Marbles in Boston. She worked on MIT’s Lure of the Labyrinth, several PBS Kids Play! websites, and the websites for Jim Henson Company’s Sid the Science Kid and Dinosaur Train TV shows. She has also worked with clients such as Scholastic, Pearson Education and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. She earned a B.S in Television, Radio and Film from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications.

Scot Osterweil

President and Creative Director

Scot Osterweil is a research scientist in the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program, and a Creative Consultant to the MIT Education Arcade and the MIT Game Lab. He has designed games in both academic and commercial environments. Designs include the acclaimed Zoombinis series (math and logic), Vanished: The MIT/Smithsonian Game (environmental science), Labyrinth (math), Kids Survey Network (data and statistics), Caduceus (medicine), and iCue (history). He is a founder, President, and Creative Director of Learning Games Network (www.learninggamesnetwork.org) where he led the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Language Learning Initiative (ESL), and where he designed Quandary, named Game of the Year at the 2013 Games for Change festival. He co-authored the book Resonant Games (MIT Press) and served as the play consultant on the Emmy Award winning Amazon TV series Tumbleleaf.

Shelly London

Quandary Founder

Shelly London, Quandary founder, is a retired senior corporate executive and foundation president emeritus, as well as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business since 2008, teaching ethics-related courses. She conceived the idea for Quandary while a fellow in the inaugural cohort of Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, an academic program designed to unleash the power of experienced leaders to solve pressing societal issues. She has spearheaded creation of social impact initiatives, such as The Family Dinner Project.org, now housed at Mass General Hospital in Boston, and Understood.org, a comprehensive digital resource for parents of children with learning and thinking differences. In 2019, she received the Senator Robert Dole Humanitarian Award for service to people with disabilities. She’s on the advisory board of Making Caring Common at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Daniel O’Donnell

Quandary Strategy and Outreach

Daniel O’Donnell has led political and advocacy campaigns at the national, state, and local level, beginning early on Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign and ultimately serving as a political appointee throughout the administration’s first term. Daniel has worked in various leadership roles in K-12 advocacy for more than a decade, with a focus on supporting schools’ and districts’ capacities for social, emotional, and ethical development for students. He supports Quandary’s growth and continued success through outreach, communications, and strategy. Daniel lives in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, where he received his B.S. from Vanderbilt University.