Director of Games R & D, Institute for the Future
A pioneer in the field of alternate reality gaming, her projects include Top Secret Dance Off, CryptoZoo, Superstruct, The Lost Ring, World Without Oil, Cruel 2 B Kind, and I Love Bees. She is an expert on applying game design and game theory to real work and real business, and has run game events in more than 30 countries on 6 continents. She blogs at avantgame.com and has a PhD in performance studies. She has taught game design and game studies at UC Berkeley and at the San Francisco Art Institute.