Rita King—Dancing Ink Productions, LLC

Rita J. King is CEO and Creative Director of Dancing Ink Productions, a company that fosters the emergence of a new global culture in the Imagination Age through virtual worlds.  King is a Carnegie Council Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.  For seven years while working as an award-winning investigative reporter, Rita’s primary focus was reporting on corporate culture. This work culminated in her report, “Big, Easy Money: Disaster Profiteering on the American Gulf Coast,” followed by a civil rights quest with the president of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development across the Deep South to study the American journey from enslavement toward the possibility of true liberation. Rita recently completed a lengthy report for IBM, “From the Fire Pit to the Forbidden City: An Outsider's Inside Look at the Evolution of IBM's Virtual Universe Community,” and her essay “The Emergence of a New Global Culture in the Imagination Age” was published in a book to celebrate the launch of the Transatlantic Network 2020, a youth leadership initiative spearheaded by the British Council to cultivate multimedia connections between young people looking to collaborate on tackling serious global issues.