Laura will be the first director of civility at Roblox.
Laura Higgins will be the first director of digital civility at Roblox.
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Roblox hires online safety veteran to lead digital civility initiative

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Roblox has hired Laura Higgins, an online safety expert, to lead a new digital civility initiative at the company that makes a virtual world and gaming platform for teens.

Roblox has grown tremendously to more than 80 million monthly players, but it has had bad incidents, like last year when a child’s game character was sexually violated in the virtual world. Since then, the company has put a renewed focus on online safety and is moving to stay ahead of such problems in the future, said Tami Bhaumik, vice president of marketing for Roblox, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.