Meet us
We have members from all facets of the games industry, including game developers, community managers, game players, researchers, students, educators, and more!
You are welcome here.
Kat Schrier (she/they)
Dr. Kat Schrier is an Associate Professor/Director of Games at Marist College, and researcher of games, compassion, and bias. Kat is also a Game Designer (Consultant) for the World Health Organization (WHO), and author/editor of over 100 published works including the Learning, Education, & Games series, and We the Gamers. Prior to Marist, she worked at Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and BrainPOP. She helped to initiate the Inclusive Games group.
Kelly M Tran (she/her)
Dr. Kelly M Tran is a game designer and researcher focused on play, accessibility, and making better games for learning.
Mads
After becoming disabled as a child, Mads, a Community Manager, developed a passion for accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity in all aspects of life and hopes to translate this to the gaming industry by advocating that video games are for every person regardless of age, gender, ability, or skill.
Jess Rowan Marcotte (they/them)
Dr. Jess Rowan Marcotte (they/them) is a mixed Mi’kmaw and European interaction designer and writer, one-third of the Soft Chaos Cooperative, and the lead co-organizer of the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon).
Lien Tran (she/her)
Lien Tran (she, her, hers) is an assistant professor of games and design and director of Matters at Play, a transdisciplinary social impact design lab, at DePaul University’s School of Design in the College of Computing and Digital Media.
Angelica Joy Dinglasan (she/her)
Angelica Joy Dinglasan, who’s also known as LuluCat, is an undergraduate college student studying Bachelor of Science in Entertainment and Multimedia Computing Game Development in iAcademy from the Philippines. She’s into games that can give players an emotional impact that they’ll be able to learn from while being entertaining.
Michelle Garza (ella/she/her)
Michelle Garza is an A11y advocate and researcher and who believes video games should be for everyone!
Johansen Quijano (he/his)
Dr. Johansen Quijano does research on the rhetoric of games and their potential as learning tools. He is currently working on a manuscript analyzing the rhetoric of race and gender as depicted in the Final Fantasy franchise and creating an inclusive campus gamer space that promotes the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Honey Rosenbloom (they/she)
Honey P. Rosenbloom (they/she) is a connection-oriented play advocate and Executive Director of Friendship Garden Game Developers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cultivating inclusion in the games industry through promoting, funding, and resourcing developers from historically marginalized backgrounds as well as providing training, mediation, and facilitation services to game studios hoping to grow more inclusion to help their company thrive. They know that inclusion fosters stronger interpersonal connections which lead to a more tolerant, loving, and antifragile world and playspaces.