Nellie Hughes is a 19 year game industry veteran. She’s worked in many corners of the design sector over that time from open world content, monetization, systems, people management to her current role as a Design Director at Xbox Games Publishing - where she sits on the publishing side and focuses on setting her current projects up for success as well as she can. Her past projects include City of Heroes, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, Guild Wars 2 and some other games that never came to light. Her passion is driven by ensuring players are creating lifelong positive memories on the projects she contributes to, and making sure she can bring as new folks with as many different lived experiences as she can into the game industry.