Mary Flanagan is an award winning game designer and author of Critical Play: Radical Game Design (2009, MIT Press). Flanagan pushes the boundaries of medium and genre across writing, visual arts, and design to innovate in these fields with her 'critical play'-centered approach. She researches and creates games at Tiltfactor, the theory/practice laboratory she founded in 2003 directed at social change play. Tiltfactor uses an evidence based investigation to further values in game design, implementing psychological principles to change hearts and minds about public health, sharing 'the commons', and changing biases and stereotypes. Flanagan with collaborator Helen Nissenbaum has broken ground by investigating how games can be redesigned to prioritize human values, proving that using humanist principles to shape software development and guide the design process is a means of innovation. Flanagan’s work has been supported by commissions including The British Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the ACLS, and the National Science Foundation. She serves on the faculty of the Salzburg Global Seminar & the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Academic Consortium on Games for Impact. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.