Stephanie Pfirman leads the multi-institutional Polar Learning and Responding: Climate Change Education Partnership that is co-sponsoring the Games for Change Climate Challenge. An Arctic sea ice scientist and environmental educator, she is Hirschorn Professor of Environmental Science at Barnard College, with a joint appointment at the Columbia Earth Institute. Pfirman is active in designing games and simulations for climate education and co-developed the award-winning exhibition, "Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast.” She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution joint program.