Doing Justice to Videogames, Sandra Day O'Connor Speaks at Gaming Conference

Oyez, oyez, oyez! On our list of People We Wouldn’t Expect to See as Speakers at Videogame Conferences, retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor is right up there, but we should know better than to underestimate a ranch-raised Texan whose childhood pets included a bobcat (“Bob”) and a couple of javelinas. Yesterday in New York City O’Connor gave the closing keynote address at the fifth annual Games for Change Festival, which focuses on how to use digital games for social change.

After two days of discussion about things such as ARGs (Alternative Reality Games), XNA Game Studio, and SimCity as a tool for teaching urban planning, O’Connor took the stage at Parsons, The New School for Design’s Tishman Auditorium.

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