Ashley Creek is the Director of the Keleher Learning Commons at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas. She received her MLIS from the University of Kentucky in 2009 following a Bachelor of Arts from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where she majored in English—Creative Writing and minored in Women & Gender Studies. Her current research interests focus on the student experience: gamification, makerspaces, active learning, instructional design, and the library as center of the academic community.