She is one of the founders of the San Francisco-based immersive experience The Jejune Institute and works as a creative director and senior R&D Imagineer at Walt Disney Imagineering, including creative leadership on the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser two-day immersive Disney experience.
[2][3] Thacher was one of the creators of the multi-chapter interactive experience The Jejune Institute[4] in San Francisco, with Jeff Hull and Uriah Findley.
She served as a lead producer and experience designer for Nonchalance after answering a Craigslist recruiting ad.
[7] The game explored climate change, its effect on polar ice, and rising sea levels through a series of voicemails from the future.
Her work includes creative leadership on the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser two-day immersive Disney experience,[10] the Themed Entertainment Association Award-winning Haunted Mansion: Ghost Post,[11][12][13] and alternate reality game The Optimist,[14] a game set around Anaheim, California and inside Disneyland that served as a promotional tie-in to the 2015 film Tomorrowland.