Who We Are

Michael Joseph: Assistant Director of Sustainability, Cast, Research, and Facilitator
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First connecting with Evergreen in 2013, Michael has since worked to connect students, faculty, and community partners through sustainability projects that blend creativity, education, and real-world impact. With a passion for Solarpunk (a meliorism movement that imagines hopeful, sustainable futures rooted in equity and community resilience) Michael integrates this ethos into everything from campus initiatives to game-based learning.

Michael enjoys creative problem-solving and exploring how games can serve as tools for learning, modeling, skills-training, and collaboration. Both in the professional world and the classroom. He is currently designing curriculum and workshops that integrates solo journaling, tabletop RPGs, and educational games into K–12 learning modules and for incarcerated individuals.

Sarah “Sam” Saltiel: Game Designer, Evergreen Faculty, Cast, Research, Website Design, and Facilitator
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Sarah “Sam” Saltiel is a professor of creative writing and game design at Evergreen State College. They are a queer and femme nonbinary artist, writer, and game designer based in Olympia, WA. Across mediums, their work is relational. They position art-making as an act of community-building through interactive and collaborative pieces and practices. Sam’s teaching focuses on radical curiosity and exploration as key parts of a sustainable artistic practice.

Sam is the 2025 winner of The Southeast Review’s Ned Stuckey-French Nonfiction Contest, a 2025 finalist in The Plentitudes Nonfiction Prize, a 2024 recipient of Brown University’s Robert Coover Prize for Innovative Fiction, a 2022 silver ENnie-winner for best game design supplement, and a 2019 recipient of the Metatopia Sponsorship. They are the author of two poetry chapbooks and of Passing, a Powered by the Apocalypse ashcan. More about Sam’s work can be found on their website: https://www.sarahsamsaltiel.com/

Andrew Keillor: Student Cast, Production, and Research
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Andrew Keillor is a game designer and writer based in Olympia, Washington. A full-time student at The Evergreen State College studying creative writing, ecology, and game design, they hope to leverage their training and education to create projects that provide approachable, digestible avenues for anyone to engage with conservation, ecology, and climate justice. A lifelong lover of the outdoors, they hope to help preserve the wilder spaces of the world so everyone can experience the opportunities they have enjoyed.

In his free time, Andrew enjoys playing too many tabletop roleplaying games, getting lost in the woods, and wandering the streets of Olympia at 4 AM.

Andrew’s game design work (focused in their bespoke setting the Tree of Bones) can be found at irately.itch.io

Clove Eggleston: Alumni Cast
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Clove is a non-binary writer and artist from Olympia, Washington. They graduated from Evergreen in 2025, where they focused on a variety of studio arts and creative writing, but also studied social justice centered around decolonization and food systems. They have spent several years playing, home-brewing, and designing TTRPGs, and have also taken classes from Sam Saltiel on game design. They are currently in the process of creating a few different games that center queerness, mutual aid, and dismantling oppressive power structures and the exploitation of people and the environment. Most of their writing and TTRPG work is set within the fantasy genre, although it tends to lean away from the classic medieval European settings, and blends in aspects of scifi, horror, and post-apocalyptic. All of Clove’s work aims to be anti-fascist in theme, mechanics, lore, and storytelling, and is particularly critical of capitalism and colonialism.

Emma Hamaker-Teals: Student Research

I grew up in Washington, but left to pursue my undergraduate degree at the University of Oregon. I graduated with a degree in general social science and a minor in environmental studies. This past spring I did a study abroad in New Zealand and was able to learn firsthand about some of their indigenous environmental conservation methods. This, along with my academic work, got me interested in our environment and the different ways that we can lessen human impact on our earth.

Gwendolyn: Student Research, Editing
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I grew up in Oklahoma near Oklahoma State University but moved up to Olympia in 2016. I received my Bachelor of Science from Evergreen in 2023, focusing on integrated biology and chemistry. My degree was interdisciplinary, with course work in organic chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, and more. After that, I started to work with the Puget Sound Estuarium on various restoration, outreach, and K-12 education programs. Now in the Master of Environmental Studies program and fellowship through CCAS, I am excited to expand on my background in small organisms and apply it to big problems! Some areas of interest right now include ocean acidification, eutrophication, and estuary restoration.

Miranda Cagle: Student Cast, Production, Website Design
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Miranda Cagle (she/they), also known as The Exhausted Duck in online spaces, is a queer artist from Shelton, Washington, who has recently found her passion for art making. Currently, Miranda is a full time student at The Evergreen State College. Her primary study in school has been visual art with an emphasis on character design, graphic design, printmaking, and game design.

Miranda is a first generation college student, and will be the first in their family to earn a college degree, and they are incredibly proud of their ability to keep with this hard thing and see it through to the bitter end.

Miranda has been told that her sense of humor is dry and British. She takes this in stride, and does not intend on slowing down anytime soon. In her free time, she plays a lot of life simulator videogames, takes naps, collects dolls, and hangs out with her anxious cat Bubbles.

Miranda looks forward to going out into the world and finding designers that need characters for their games, or concept art, or creatures. They hope to bring a bright spot in the workplace, and some damn fun artwork too.

Zoey Reeves: Student Cast
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Hello, I am Zoey a Junior at The Evergreen State College’s undergraduate program. I have moved around quite a bit but mostly lived in Washington, I have been playing games for as long as I have had conscious thought, I am a second generation nerd, meaning all of my nerdy passions have been allowed to cultivate from quite a young age. I am trans and that has been heavily influenced by games, I really enjoy exploring the self and how our mind is altered when we put ourselves into the shoes of a character. I think there are very few board games where a bit of embodying your character is a bad thing. I am currently working on a post apocalyptic game about the things that get left behind. I hope to provide some knowledge in ttrpgs and my skill at good characters to make every session moment spent on and off the table more impactful.