Amy Tucker invented Xeko

Xeko

Xeko is a collectible card game revolving around endangered species. It was launched on Earthday 2006. It won the Creative Child Magazine 2006 Toy of the Year Award and The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval in its first year. Four "Mission" sets have been released. Mission: Costa Rica...

 and established Matter Group after 12 years in high-tech and custom publishing, where she designed integrated-media programs for companies including Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

, Nintendo

Nintendo

is a multinational corporation located in Kyoto, Japan. Founded on September 23, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, it produced handmade hanafuda cards. By 1963, the company had tried several small niche businesses, such as a cab company and a love hotel....

, and T-Mobile

T-Mobile

T-Mobile International AG is a German-based holding company for Deutsche Telekom AG's various mobile communications subsidiaries outside Germany. Based in Bonn, Germany, its subsidiaries operate GSM and UMTS-based cellular networks in Europe, the United States, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

. As vice president of strategic development at Fluent Communications, Tucker crafted programs that included Microsoft’s first consumer e-commerce engine, Nintendo’s Pokémon

Pokémon

is a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...

 website, and T-Mobile’s mobile content program.

In 2004, Tucker took time off to travel and research, turning her creative vision and experience toward advancement in global sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...

, where she seeks to influence individuals, businesses, and policy makers in ways that support the long-term health of our planet. In 2005 Tucker founded Matter Group, an incubator for sustainability advancements, with close friend and business maven Sönny Spearman.

A world traveler, artist, yogini

Yogini

Yogini is the complete form source word of the masculine yogi- and neutral/plural "yogin." Far from being merely a gender tag to the all things yogi, "Yogini" represents both a female master practitioner of Yoga, and a formal term of respect for a category of modern female spiritual teachers in...

, and snowboarder, Tucker serves on the Seattle Art Museum’s Contemporary Art Executive Council and guest teaches at Seattle's School of Visual Concepts. She’s the singer/songwriter for Future Factory, a Seattle folk/punk band. A Boettcher Scholar, Tucker graduated magna cum laude from Colorado College

Colorado College

The Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. It was founded in 1874 by Thomas Nelson Haskell...

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