Dr. Christopher Harris is the Director of the School Library System for Genesee Valley BOCES, an educational agency supporting 22 small, rural districts in Western NY. He was a participant in the first American Library Association Emerging Leaders program in 2007 and was honored as a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2008. In 2022, Dr. Harris was named a Senior Fellow for the American Library Association. Dr. Harris received his Ed.D. from St. John Fisher University in 2018 for research on helping teachers become confident teaching computer science. He is the lead on the LibraryReady.AI PK-12 curriculum project.

Christopher started Play Play Learn in 2014 to provide educational resources and consulting services that connect games and learning in libraries, schools, and homes for students of all ages. In 2015, the first titles in Christopher’s Teaching Through Games series were released by Rosen Publishing as professional books with lesson plans for using tabletop games in classroom and library instruction. The Playful Classroom, a series of books with artwork tied to games from HABA were released from Rosen Classroom in 2018. The Unplugged Activities for Future Coders series with play-based approaches for computational thinking was published by Enslow in 2019. He has two books in Rosen’s Kids Can Code series on AI and Machine Learning published in 2025.