Summing up my philosophy on expressivity and access, a participant once said that video game modding “almost feels like you’re participating in the development of the game that you want to play… Modding has definitely played into the mindset that… change is possible. Not only possible, but it can be inevitable… Being able to take this thing that, you thought for a moment, was unchangeable or untouchable – like, no, you can change it. You can make it. And not only can you change it, you can make it what you want it to be.”

I am currently a fifth-year PhD candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Information Science department within the College of Media, Design, and Information. I study malleable, expressive, and accessible infrastructures within video games through the process and implementation of video game modding under Bryan Semaan. I received my M.A.T in Secondary English Education and my B.A. in English from Georgia State University.