2025 Speakers
Alenda Chang, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alenda Y. Chang is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has written extensively about the environmental impacts of digital games, including the 2019 book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games. She was an early member of the IGDA Climate Special Interest Group and currently serves on the advisory board of STRATEGIES (Sustainable TRAnsiTion for Europe’s Game IndustrIES). At UCSB, Chang co-directs Wireframe, a studio promoting collaborative theoretical and creative media practice with investments in global social and environmental justice. She is also a founding co-editor of the UC Press open-access journal, Media+Environment.
