BIO

Brenda Brathwaite

A 26-year veteran of the video game industry, Brenda Brathwaite is an award-winning game designer and has worked on 22 internationally known titles including titles in the Def Jam, Dungeons & Dragons and Wizardry series. Brathwaite is on the board of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the chair of the IGDA's Education SIG Ad hoc Committee and the co-founder and chair of the IGDA's Savannah chapter. She was named one of the 100 most influential women in the game industry by Next Generation magazine, and Nerve magazine called her one of the "the 50 artists, actors, authors, activists and icons who are making the world a more stimulating place".  She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and most recently was invited to participate in the exclusive Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference where she defeated the maker of Tetris. Brathwaite's current works are leaning toward experimental gaming, free-rule interactive media, social media and non-digital games.

Email contact: bbrathwa@scad.edu