New York Times: Saving the World, One Video Game at a Time

About

Mission

Our Mission Statement:

Catalyzing Social Impact Through Digital Games

What we do:

Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational efforts.

Unlike the commercial gaming industry, we aim to leverage entertainment and engagement for social good. To further grow the field, Games for Change convenes multiple stakeholders, highlights best practices, incubates games, and helps create and direct investment into new projects.

To learn more about our current and past projects, visit our Services page.

Games for Change is a 501(c)3, nonprofit corporation.
We proudly create change from New York City.

Meet the Staff

  • Games for Change Co-President, Asi Burak

    Asi Burak

    Co-President, Games for Change

    As Co-President, Asi leads on the curation, development and execution of programs and services to raise the production, quality and influence of social impact games, and serves as a spokesperson for the organization. Jointly, he and Michelle work on the strategic vision of the organization and oversee all programmatic initiatives. Read more

  • Games for Change Co-President, Michelle Byrd

    Michelle Byrd

    Co-President, Games for Change

    As Co-President, Michelle leads on institutional relationship and partnership efforts, along with fundraising, business affairs, financial management, and communications strategy. Jointly, she and Asi work on the strategic vision of the organization and oversee all programmatic initiatives. Michelle began consulting with Games for Change earlier this year working to strengthen the organization’s relationship with its international partners… Read more

  • Emily Treat, Games for Change

    Emily Treat

    Senior Game Producer, Games for Change

    Emily has an extensive background as a producer and designer of educational games. Working as a Senior Producer, Emily will be extending her expertise to oversee social impact game projects at the Games for Change Lab. As a designer-producer, she will work closely with impact partners, designers, developers, and other team members to produce and advise on high quality games that meet the high standards and mission of Games for Change. Emily will also be supporting new programs and initiatives to enable a range of “cause owners” to learn more about the space and leverage their investment. Read more

  • Jeff Ramos

    Jeff Ramos

    Community and Content Manager, Games for Change

    Jeff came to the attention of the new leadership of Games for Change through his personal blog, Game Culturalist, a socially aware blog about video games. Since joining Games for Change as their Community and Content Manager in September of 2010, he’ll be turning his eye toward helping Games for Change build its presence as a resource on-line and off at various community events… Read more

  • ida-Benedetto

    Ida C. Benedetto

    Festival Program Manager, Games for Change

    Ida is a Brook­lyn-based media strate­gist, pro­ducer and doc­u­men­tar­ian working with visual media and dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to fos­ter sto­ry­telling, col­lab­o­ra­tion and diver­sity. Her cre­ative roots lie in pho­tog­ra­phy, and her cur­rent work involves dig­i­tal games and interactive media… Read more

  • Ai-Ling-Loo

    Ai Ling Loo

    Assistant, Games for Change Festival

    Ling has previously served as a Project Management Intern at Games for Change, an Editorial Intern at Time Out New York’s Theater Department and a Production Associate at Edge Studio: Voice Over Studio… Read more

  • Hsing-Wei

    Hsing Wei

    Games for Change Awards Manager, Games for Change Festival

    Hsing is a designer, researcher, convener, and tinkerist. She enjoys thinking about and developing technology-enriched experiences that solve problems, connect communities, and enable novel ways of interacting with the world… Read more

Board of Directors

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Advisory Board (2010 – 2011)

For the full biographies of our Advisory Board in PDF format, click here.