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Barry Joseph

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in Mineola, The United States

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Barry Joseph is the Principal of Barry Joseph Consulting, a leader in innovating solutions for learning in a digital age. He is also the co-founder of the Games for Change Festival, the more than 20-year-old, multi-day event in New York City. As an early developer of after-school game design youth programming and now adjunct at New York University, Barry has been a national leader in both games-based learning and games for social impact, producing dozens of curriculums and games. Work and clients include the American Museum of Natural History, Girl Scouts of the USA, the RAND Corporation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the International Criminal Court. Barry has been featured by the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, CBS Morning N ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 63 ratings · 20 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend 4.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2025 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seltzertopia: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary Drink 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friday is Tomorrow, or The Dayenu Year: Chronicles from the NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Dinosaurs Dance: A Toolkit for Digital Design in Museums 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Book talk at Beth-El Jewish Center, East Meadow, NY

I had a great time yesterday out on Long Island at the Beth-El Jewish Center, in East Meadow, NY, just down the block from Safety Town, where I first learn car FOMO and how to jaywalk.

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