New York Times bestselling author Jane McGonigal graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006 with a PhD in Performace Studies. She launched the self-help app SuperBetter in 2012 and has gone on to become one of the "Most Powerful Women To Watch" according to Forbes Magazine. She taught game design and game theory at UC Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute and is currently Director of Games & Research Development at the Institute for the Future and Teachers. She lives with her husband in San Francisco.