Anahita Dalmia

Anahita Dalmia is co-founder and CEO of the company Alterea (yes it’s a play on “alternate reality"). Alterea (www.altereainc.com) creates interactive stories across mediums (theatre, games, VR, etc), allowing participants to enter a different world in which they have agency and impact within an unfolding story with the goal to show them that their actions matter and empowering them to build the world they want to see. Her projects have won the Aspen Institute of Information Disorder Competition, SBIR grants from the US Dept of Education and been a finalist for the 2020 SXSW Innovation Awards. She is a three-time published author on achieving social impact using experiential design, including the articles "Disney: Castles, Kingdoms and (No) Common Man" in JTEAS  and "Designing An Adventure” in the Carnegie Mellon University’s Well Played Journal and has been featured in multiple publications including Authority Magazine and ThriveGlobal’s “Dreamers” and “Future of Games” series. She is also an associate faculty member at the Media Education Lab and on the Board of Advisors for The Game Academy and UC Riverside’s Design Thinking Program.