Lisa Dethridge

Lisa Dethridge - PhD in Media Ecology from New York University - Industrial Design; Multidisciplinary Producer/Facilitator/Writer for online collaborative environments;  specialist in Ethical Artificial Intelligence; AI Trainer and Prompt Engineer with Scale, Palo Alto; Extended Reality (XR), 3D virtual and augmented worlds.  Peer of Creative Australia Council for the Arts.  Recent research partners include OpenAI, Microsoft and CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.  She has produced media for web, film, television, theatre, radio, print, telecoms and virtual environments in Australia, Europe, Asia and the United States.  She supervises research across Industrial Design and Innovation Strategy; Games, Robotics, Multiverse and Virtual Environments, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media at RMIT University and with industry partners. 
Dethridge  specializes in online global collaborations; has worked for Telecom Australia Business Development;  for the United Nations Development Program in New York, for Space Test, NASA in Houston and currently advises the Australian Internet Domain Authority (auDA).  She sits on the Board of Melbourne Books and is a peer of Creative Australia.   
She has written and produced popular culture  for TV, film, radio and print including Vogue Magazine, The Australian, Cleo, Marie Claire and The Age.  As a multimedia artist, she has exhibited in New York's Pratt Institute; Dublin Science Museum and Australian galleries.  Author of Writing Your Screenplay, of numerous scholarly articles, screen and stage plays.  She collaborates with Tony Yap Dance Theatre and associated artists from South East Asia and India.  Trained in cross-cultural communication and First Nations knowledge protocols.