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

  • 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

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    Ida C. Benedetto

    Festival Program Manager, Games for Change

    Ida is a media strategist and producer who works with visual media and digital technology to support storytelling, collaboration and diversity. Her professional experience includes working for a foundation, a photo agency, two design studios, and a dozen NGOs… Read more

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    Hsing Wei

    Festival Awards & Special Projects Manager, Games for Change

    Hsing’s experiences have spanned from strategy consulting, to venture philanthropy, media production, user experience and research design. She continues to develop new content, products, and partnerships for a range of for-profit and non-profit clients… Read more

Board of Directors

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

Advisory Board (2010 – 2011)

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