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BIOS

Brooke Smith and Elizabeth Stringer
Brooke Smith is a Producer at Gearbox Entertainment working on Borderlands 4.
Brooke has a Master of Interactive Technology with a specialization in Production from SMU Guildhall. The original WoW case study is from Brooke’ s Master’ s thesis GUR project.
Dr. Elizabeth Stringer is a Clinical Professor and Director of Academics at SMU Guildhall, a graduate game development program.
Elizabeth served as Brooke’ s thesis advisor on the original WoW Master’ s thesis project. Elizabeth has a PhD in Arts, Technology and Emerging Communication from the University of Texas at Dallas and an MEd in Educational Technology from SMU. Elizabeth shipped over 30 titles in her professional career in the videogame industry across a decade of production roles at Activision and Atari.