Becky Harris is the distinguished fellow in gaming and leadership at Lifelong Learning where she oversees The Leaderverse Initiatives (Leaderverse). Leaderverse delivers workforce development programming designed to empower all workers, especially women, through pivotal career stages during the course of their employment journey. Consisting of three innovative programs - Success@Work, Dream Academy and Women Up - Leaderverse offers unique and personalized experiences to everyone at any career stage, from those seeking to re-enter the workforce to potential C-suite executives.

Harris is also a visiting professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law where she teaches Gaming Law and Policy, Casino Resort Hotel Law, and AML for Gaming Lawyers. She is an internationally recognized expert on gambling policy, regulation, legislative affairs, workforce development, and developing workforce development programs. In her various capacities, Harris works with regulators, operators, academics, and other stakeholders on a host of gambling, and leadership challenges and projects. Actively involved in gambling issues around the world, Harris is highly sought-after as a collaborator, advisor, and speaker at conferences, where she participates in industry and workforce development specific panels, as a moderator and in other fora. Harris is frequently called upon nationally to discuss policy and regulatory issues relating to legal sports wagering. Harris is a published author and is designated as an AML Specialist by ACAMS.

Harris served as the chair of the Nevada Gaming Control Board from 2018-2019 and was the first woman to hold the position. As chief regulator, responsible for comprehensively regulating the multi-billion dollar gambling industry in the State of Nevada, she served as a global ambassador to other gambling regulators and led the world’s most highly regarded gambling regulatory body through several high profile matters including the repeal of the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), the emergence of sports betting across the United States, various Wire Act issues, sexual harassment matters and the #MeToo Movement, and gaming implications from the legalization of recreational cannabis.