Jeannie is a member of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and has served on selection committees for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) and the ALT+CTRL Festival of Independent & Alternative Games at the University of California, Irvine. Jeannie has spoken extensively on game development, film, music and interactive entertainment at conferences and universities including Macworld, Internet World, Indie Games Con (IGC), University of Southern California (USC), and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
As founder & CEO of Indiespace, Jeannie was chosen as one of the 100 most influential people in high-technology by MicroTimes magazine and she and her company have been profiled by CNN, Billboard Magazine, Sundance Channel, Daily Variety, and the Los Angeles Times. Clients for Indiespace's online marketing, communication, promotion, distribution and web hosting services have included Getty Center for Education, Sony, A&M Records, and Fox Interactive/Vivendi Universal Games. Indiespace was a finalist in the Global Information Infrastructure Awards and Interactive Digital Entertainment Association Award for Industry Achievement.
     Jeannie is also a subject matter expert and instructor for the Game Art & Design program at the Art Institute Online and she teaches at UCLA Extension, Art Center College of Design, and the Academy of Entertainment and Technology at Santa Monica College.

     When she isn't writing, teaching and consulting, Jeannie spends most of her time playing strategy or survival-horror games, reading speculative fiction and science fact, watching horror/sci fi movies . . . and, of course, recording, performing and composing music! She lives a few blocks from the beach in Santa Monica, California.