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Keyword Biosketch: Brittany N. Thomas, Designer. Academic Interests: All forms of product design, particularly toy design, as well as gender roles in playtime and children’s toys, advertising and marketing and the theories behind success in these areas, branding, technology and its role in the classroom, social media policies, mass media policies, and portrayal of women in popular culture.

Biosketch: Brittany Thomas is a product designer in the New York City area. She received her bachelor’s degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Design Innovation and Society as well as Communications, and also pursued a minor in Architecture. She went on to receive her masters in Industrial Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology. Her broad design background led to her to pursue a career in many different design related fields including product design, toy design, marketing, advertisement, graphic design, and branding. Her research includes work in many different fields and topics, including but not limited to toy design and gender roles in children’s play time, technology and its role in the classroom, technology and its effects on communication and human interaction, and the portrayal of women in the media, film, television, politics, and advertising. Her current research is in toy design for girls and promoting interest in STEM subjects in females at a young age, and she is currently working as a toy designer at a startup toy company located in New York City.