Michelle Colder Carras
Michelle is a public mental health researcher and gamer devoted to changing the public health conversation around gaming. Her work explores the boundary between healthy and problematic gaming and how gaming can help mental health. She uses fancy statistics as well as interviews to understand gamers' perspectives, and her research philosophy is that gamers are the experts on their own experiences. She plays World of Warcraft and Dance Dance Revolution and is trying to get up the nerve to start a Twitch channel.