Steering Committee

Jennifer Burkitt began her career in Interactive at the Canadian Film Centre as Manager New Media Programmes at Media Linx Habitat. There she was able to guide resident new media projects, help build a professional development series of workshops and programme the Interactive Arena (a lecture series with the AGO). Jennifer went on to produce many online initiatives, including Heritage Minute activities for kids, the Canadian Television Fund site and Gentle Subversion – The Canadian Psyche on Film. As Lead Producer for Medium One Productions for over 3 years, she developed several online projects for PBS and Cinar, including the Mobius award-winning website Caillou and Zaboomafoo, as well as CD-ROMS for PBS and The Learning Company such as Jay Jay Jet Plane, Ken Burn's Jazz for Kids, Napoleon and Islam – A People's History. During this time, she also taught Project Management for New Media at Centennial College and helped to develop the curriculum for their certificate program. Her focus became children and youth exclusively for 5 years while she worked at TVOntario, as Manager of TVOKids.com. Her work has been recognized with a Japan Prize, as well as several Gemini, Canadian New Media Award and FlashintheCan nominations. Currently Jennifer is the Executive in Charge of Interactive Programming for Children’s and Youth at CBC where she provides strategic development and oversees interactive production for the preschool, school age and parent’s sites. She works closely with the broadcast team to deliver work that fluidly blends interactive and on-air initiatives as well as those that are stand alone interactive projects. Jennifer genuinely enjoys working for and with kids; believes in their ability to teach and learn and attempts to build work that enlightens, entertains and gratifies whether she is building them, playing or both.

Jennifer has a Media Arts degree from Ryerson Polytechnic University and a Psychology degree from the University of Guelph. She is working toward her Master of Education with an emphasis in children’s interactive and converged media at Brock University but is on a bit of a hiatus as her two kids (Daulton and Fynn) take up a lot of her free time.