About Kerplunk

About Kerplunk
	Dr. Milagros (Millie) Rivera has been a university professor for 20 years. She graduated with a Ph.D. in media law and policy from the University of Florida, in the U.S.A.  She has taught in universities in the U.S.A., Chile, Singapore and South Africa; and has presented her research in more than 20 countries. In 2012 she founded Kerplunk Personal Mastery and began to conduct training in the area of personal mastery, self-awareness, enlightened leadership, and emotional wellness.In 2002 Millie left her job at Indiana University in the U.S.A. and accepted a position as associate professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS). There she was promoted to head of department (HOD) and began the process of building a communications and new media (CNM) program of global excellence. After becoming CNM’s head, Millie obtained a SGD$1.6 million grant (almost 12 million Rands) to add a stream in communication management and another in interactive media (game/interactive/visual design and human-computer interaction). Starting with a base staff of six lecturers, she hired a diverse and multidisciplinary team of 35 teaching staff from more than 15 countries in areas such as computing, human computer interaction, engineering, game and visual design, digital/traditional art, music, social and cognitive psychology, economics, media studies, communication management, and health communications.
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