Jane McGonigal is the director of game research and development at the Institute for the Future and the author of the New York Times bestseller Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, The New York Times and on MTV, CNN and NPR. Her TED talks on games have been viewed more than ten million times. Jane's new book is Super Better: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient. She was in the Northwest to speak at Town Hall Seattle, presented by Town Hall and University Book Store, as part of The Seattle Science Lectures.