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Jennifer Estaris is an award-winning game director, designer, and sustainability advocate whose work bridges play and purpose. She currently consults on games and sustainability with companies including Netflix and is developing a civic-engagement game inspired by Citizens' Assemblies. Jennifer directed Monument Valley 3, a nature-infused reimagining of the beloved series told through a story of flood recovery, which launched in December 2024. Featured in The Guardian, The Verge, and Polygon for her hope-punk approach, the game went on to win UKIE's Best Mobile Game and TIGA's Best Casual Game, and is nominated for 3 BAFTAs. She also directed the forest-conservation chapter The Lost Forest for Monument Valley 2, as well as Subway Surfers, the 4.5B-download global hit where she championed green liveops. At UNEP's Playing for the Planet, an alliance of 50+ game companies collaborating on sustainability, Jennifer serves as Storytelling Committee Co-Chair. She is also a board member of the IGDA and Co-Chair of the IGDA Climate SIG. A Filipina creative leader with roots at SYBO, Disney, and Nickelodeon, Jennifer has helped shape some of the industry's most iconic and socially conscious games. Thanks to support from Games London's Game Changers cohort, Jennifer is building her own studio, Estaris Works, where she is developing a game about healing from personal and planetary grief. Through talks at conferences and festivals such as GDC, Gamescom, and Games for Change, and as a co-author of The Game Needs to Change, Jennifer brings playtivism into practice, most recently by curating eco-punk experimental role-playing theatre. She invites others to create experiences that matter and to believe, with playful conviction, that the world can sail toward a joyful future. Games can change the temperature of the world… literally and emotionally.