Biographical Info

Suzi Montgomery is an education consultant who specializes in media education and works with teachers and students dedicated to tapping into the dynamic nature of podcasts and film as instructional resources for social good. She has trained thousands of teachers in media arts and presents across the nation. Her BS and MA in science, paired with her work in the sciences and as an oral historian and documentarian, evolved into a career in radio, where she taught podcasting courses and was the senior producer of a weekly science radio show on a local NPR affiliate station. Her education experience spans over two decades, teaching in classrooms across the world, working as the Executive Director of Higher Ground Learning, a creative learning center focused on customized learning models, and then moving into the film industry as the SHIFT Program Director, where she began training teachers to use filmmaking in the classroom. Grateful to teachers with minds wide open to engaging in new educational strategies, Suzi is dedicated to empowering teachers and enlivening classrooms using story, technology, and her vast experience weaving the digital media arts meaningfully into educational settings.

Suzi led podcasting workshops at three of our five centers as a component of Mission STEMCAP. In these workshops, students respond verbally to the environmental problems that they have learned about throughout Mission STEMCAP and work in teams to create informative podcasts designed to teach the public about their grand challenge and share with the public the work they have done throughout the programming series.