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Dr. Laquana Cooke is an award-winning educator, researcher, designer, and nationally recognized leader advancing equitable futures through game design, digital humanities, youth empowerment, STEM education, and justice-centered innovation.
Meta-Tuning Justice Game Design and Black Youth Agency
Meta-Tuning Justice introduces Metatuning as a new model for designing learning environments where marginalized youth become creators, critics, and innovators—not simply consumers of technology.
“A rare and rigorous account of how games operate as cognitive and social systems, not merely as texts or technologies. Cooke shows how players learn what futures are imaginable through play, and how those learned expectations can be disrupted, redesigned, and reoriented. This work provides both a sharp diagnostic framework and a generative set of tools for analyzing and redesigning the cognitive and social work games perform.”
Games+Learning+Society Center Co-Director, University of California, Irvine
“Laquana Cooke has written a fantastic book that contributes to our understanding of racial equity in teaching and learning by making meaningful connections between game studies, Science and Technology Studies, and educational research.”
Michigan State University
From scholarly frameworks to national youth innovation programs.
Critical game studies, digital humanities, design justice, AI and education, youth participatory design, urban education, media literacy, and inclusive STEM ecosystems.
Books, journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, reports, invited essays, and research briefs organized by theme and audience.
A long-term research identity for the Metatuning Framework, justice-centered STEM, community game design, youth participatory research, and transformative learning.
Her work has contributed to impactful projects for Nintendo and LeapFrog games and supports schools, nonprofits, foundations, universities, and national STEM initiatives.
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