Leena is Creative Producer and Writer at Reuben Games working on the upcoming indie survival horror roadtrip game “Dead Static Drive”. Leena taught interactive storytelling for over seven years at various Melbourne universities, and earned a Masters in Arts Management (with Distinction) from RMIT University in 2019. She’s sat on the Narrative Jury of the Independent Games Festival awards (IGFs) since 2019, and the Board of Directors of the Victorian Women’s Trust since 2017.

Among other publications, Leena has written for The Guardian, Crikey, The Shot, The Big Issue, Kotaku, and Metro Magazine, and in 2016 co-authored a book on misogyny in videogames culture for Affirm Press called “Game Changers: From Minecraft to Misogyny, The Fight for the Future of Videogames”.

In 2015 Leena van Deventer won the inaugural “Pioneer Award” at the MCV Pacific ‘Women in Games Awards’ (presented by Xbox) for “the woman who has, over time, paved the way for women in gaming and helped build the Australian and/or New Zealand games industries”.