[3] She has previously worked as an associate professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University.

[4] She studies and creates video games, interactive digital media, animation, visual art, and comics to express Indigenous ways of knowing.

[4] Her dissertation was on the benefits of playing Survivance, a social impact game that uplifts storytelling, art, and self-determination as a pathway to healing from Indigenous historical trauma.

[10] LaPensée's game Invaders was featured in the 2015 ImagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto.

[15] Kristina Baudemann argues that LaPensée, despite being perceived as a white woman, retains an ability to draw on her ancestry to create new representations of Indigenous people.