Leah Gilliam is the Project Director and Community Catalyst at the Institute of Play. She has a rich history developing academic programs, teaching, and designing user experiences using both analog and digital media. Until she left to pursue her love of gaming and game design in 2006, Leah was an associate professor of Electronic Arts at Bard College as well as the chair of the Arts Division. Leah’s projects have been presented internationally and have been featured at the New Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Come Out and Play Festival, and traveled as part of the exhibition “Race in Digital Space.” A 2008 graduate of New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, Leah’s recent projects include Lesberation, a board game of territory capture and tile placement inspired by the rebellious beginnings of the gay rights movement and Metrophile, a big game that transformed the NYC subway system into a playing field.