Brenda Brathwaite is an awarding-winning game designer, artist, writer and game developer who entered the video game industry in 1981 at the age of 15. She was named Woman of the Year by Charisma+2 Magazine in 2010, named one of the top 20 most influential women in the game industry by Gamasutra.com in 2008, and one of the 100 most influential women in the game industry by Next Generation magazine in 2007. Nerve magazine also called her one of the the 50 artists, actors, authors, activists and icons who are making the world a more stimulating place.

In her TEDxPhoenix 11.11.11 talk, Brenda takes us through her life as a game designer and what it means to design games that can truly teach us culture, and change our perceptions about the events that have molded our society.

Website: http://bbrathwaite.wordpress.com/
On Twitter: http://twitter.com/br

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