Elena Kathryn Parker

Elena Kathryn Parker, 30, of Brooklyn New York passed away at the Atlanticare Medical Center in Pomona on Saturday, December 26, 2015.
Elena was born at the Atlanticare Medical Center on October 24, 1985. She was raised in Hammonton and graduated from Hammonton High School in 2004. She went on to further her education at Columbia University where she achieved Dean's List status five semesters and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Film Studies in 2008.
From 2008 to 2009 Elena worked as a producer and co-writer of the award winning HBO Film Make Me Young: Youth Knows No Pain and on other film projects. She then accepted a position at the New York Public Library where she continued her creative endeavors and became managing editor for Biblion: The Boundless Library, the library's first mobile application. The Apple Corporation named Biblion the education application of the year in 2011.
In 2011 Elena fulfilled a long time dream when she enrolled in New York University's Tisch School
of the Arts - Interactive Telecommunications Program. She was awarded the Lew and Edie Wasserman
Scholarship in 2012 and earned her Master's degree in 2013.
Upon her graduation from The Tisch School, Elena worked as a writer, producer and creative technologist committed to exploring narrative on new platforms. From May of 2013 until now, she worked as a Creative Technologist and Manager of Interactive Development at Campfire, a New York based marketing agency, where she specialized in building storytelling systems and using artificial intelligence in narratives.
Her latest project is a digital novel entitled "Base Pair," which was selected for the Banff Centre's first Digital Narratives Residency, which took place in Alberta, Canada in May 2015.
Elena has recently been appointed as an adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch School Interactive Telecommunications Program and she is the owner of Base Pair, LLC, a Delaware based corporation.
Elena is survived by her mother Susan H. Curcio and her father Donald J. Parker of Hammonton, and by her siblings, Jessica Parker Martin and Bob Martin of Millville, Matthew Parker of Hammonton and Gregory Parker and Mary Gaeckle Parker of Galloway Township. She is also survived by her Grandmother Lucy Curcio of Hammonton.
She is predeceased by her Grandfather Samuel A Curcio of Hammonton and her Grandparents Valton and Felice Parker of Hammonton and of Ocean Gate.
She will be sadly missed by her Uncles and Aunts Sam and Donna Curcio, Jim and Jessica Curcio and Rich and Jean Curcio, all from Hammonton, Jim and Joan Parker of Webster, NY, Bill and Theresa Parker of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and by her neice, nephews and cousins.
To review Elena's creative work please visit http://elenaparker.com/.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her viewing on Saturday January 2, 2016 from 9am-12pm at the Marinella Funeral Home 102 N. Third Street, Hammonton, NJ 08037.
Services will begin at 12pm at the funeral home. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. To leave a condolence please visit www.marinellafuneralhome.com
There will be an Elena K. Parker memorial gift to the Tisch School of the Arts. Donations can be sent to Susan H. Curcio, 2820 Smugglers Lane, Hammonton, NJ 08037 or via paypal to parcur@comcast.net.

Funeral Service

Saturday, January 2, 2016
Marinella Funeral Home 102 N. Third St. Hammonton, New Jersey, United States 08037