Chris Spielvogel is Co-Founder of Flip Learning and Senior Lecturer of Communication Arts and Sciences at Penn State University. Chris’s research has appeared in international journals in the fields of digital media, gaming, and learning, communication studies, and American history, while his recent book, Interpreting Sacred Ground: The Rhetoric of National Civil War Parks and Battlefields (University of Alabama Press, January 2013), examines the public memory of the Civil War. Chris’s innovations have been funded by a variety of foundations and agencies, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, the Kauffman Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Institute of Education Sciences. He is also the author of Valley Sim, a massively multiplayer simulation on the Civil War that has been featured on C-SPAN2, Education Week, Campus Technology Magazine, and a variety of other national news outlets.

Laura Ginsberg Spielvogel is Co-Founder of Flip Learning and an expert in the fields of public anthropology, digital humanities, and gender and women's studies. She has created a web-based, role-playing simulation on Japanese culture, where students play characters in a fictional wedding between a Japanese women and an American man, and has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including awards from the Kauffman Foundation and NEH. Laura was recognized for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Michigan University (2010-2011) and was named Faculty Fellow by the Lee Honors College at WMU (2012). She has published a book, entitled Working Out in Japan: Shaping the Female Body in Tokyo Fitness Clubs (Duke University Press, 2003), as well as articles in The Electronic Journal of Communication, Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, The International Journal of Learning and Media and a series of works of creative non-fiction.

Kim Kneas is the Faculty Representative for Flip Learning, helping instructors discover how Flip Learning course solutions can help them achieve their course goals. With more than a decade of sales and marketing experience within higher education, Kim has previously worked for several college publishers and an ed tech start-up, and her role at a university allowed her to help faculty discover and implement new technologies into their teaching and research. She remains passionate about leveraging technology to enhance teaching and learning in order to help promote a more interactive, collaborative, and personalized learning experience.

Kate Hunter is a Marketing and Faculty Outreach Associate for Flip Learning, and recently graduated from Kalamazoo College with degrees in English and Psychology. Her senior thesis, comprised of original and ‘found’ poetry, was centered around the life and death of a transgender man who was murdered in Nebraska in 1993, and more widely on the implications of identifying as transgender in the rural Midwest. Kate’s previous experience includes an internship at a nonprofit immigration law firm, as well as previous positions working with multiple digital platforms, such as QuickBooks, SPSS Statistics, and AbacusLaw.

Erik Galloway joined the Flip Learning team in January, 2015. He is currently a student at Penn State, finishing up his Information Sciences and Technology - Design and Development degree. With knowledge and experience in web and application development, Erik hopes to further his experience in the field by developing powerful and popular features for the Flip platform that change the way students learn and participate in a classroom. Prior to joining the Flip Learning team, Erik was an NCAA division-one, wrestler at the University of Pittsburgh (2010-12) and The State University of New York at Buffalo (2012-14).

Pablo is a doctoral student in the College of Communication at Florida State University. His Master’s is in Communications with an emphasis on digital media. He has experience producing and editing documentaries, educational media, advertisements, graphics and short animations. He is familiar with the Adobe Creative Suite programs, specifically in After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro.

Louis joined the Flip Learning team as an intern in May, 2017. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Louis plans to minor in Security Risk Analysis and Italian. One day, Louis hopes to use his skills to analyze the needs of organizations and increase efficiency through technology-based solutions.

Erin Doolin joined the Flip Learning team in May of 2017 as a social media and marketing intern. Erin is a Political Science and Criminology double major at the Pennsylvania State University in the Schreyer Honors College. Erin is a Spanish minor and tutors students in Spanish in her free time. In the future, Erin intends to go to law school and specialize in criminal law.