Colleen Macklin

Colleen Macklin
Colleen Macklin, 2014
Occupation	Video game designer Professor
Known for	PETLab

Colleen Macklin is a game designer, an associate professor of media design at Parsons The New School for Design and founder and co-director of PETLab (Prototyping Education and Technology Lab) which focuses on games for experimental learning and social engagement. She has a BFA in media arts from Pratt Institute and has done graduate studies in computer science at City University of New York and in international affairs at The New School.

On July 26, 2012, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched an Academic Consortium on Games for Impact. Macklin was one of 16 academics invited to join the invitation-only group.

PETLab, the research group Macklin founded and co-directs, is known for encouraging "creative approaches to, and deeper, dynamic understandings of, the complex issues society faces today, such as climate change, wealth and resource distribution, and media literacy."

In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at University of California, Los Angeles's Art | Sci Center + Lab.

Macklin also speaks about "what it means to be a woman in games" as well as gay gamers. In 2014, Macklin appeared in the LGBTQ video games documentary film Gaming In Color.