Brenda Braithwaite

In 2006, Brathwaite was named one of the 100 most influential women in the video game industry and Nerve magazine cited her as one of “the 50 artists, actors, authors, activists and icons who are making the world a more stimulating place.”

A 25-year veteran of the video game industry, Brenda Brathwaite is an award-winning game designer and professor of game development and interactive design at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. She has worked on 22 internationally known titles, including Def Jam: Icon, Playboy: The Mansion, Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes, the award-winning Wizardry series and the award-winning Jagged Alliance series of video games.

Most recently, she was awarded the Presidential Fellowship at Savannah College of Art and Design to develop an exhibit and presentation titled What You Don’t Know About Video Games.