Colleen Macklin is a game designer, professor in of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design, and founder/co-director of PETLab (Prototyping Education + Technology Lab), a lab that develops games for learning and social engagement. PETLab projects include disaster-preparedness games with the Red Cross, the urban activist game Re:Activism, and the fiscal sport Budgetball. PETLab has also published game design curricula for the Boys & Girls Club. Colleen is a member of Local No. 12, known for their social card game The Metagame. Her work has been shown at Come Out & Play, The Whitney, and Creative Time.