A 27-year veteran of the video game industry, Brenda Brathwaite is an award-winning game designer and has worked on 22 internationally known titles including titles in the Def Jam, Dungeons & Dragons and Wizardry series. Brathwaite serves on the board of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), was the chair of the IGDA's Education SIG Ad hoc Committee and the co-founder and chair of the IGDA's Savannah chapter. She was named one of the top 20 most influential women in the game industry by Gamasutra.com in 2008 and 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”.  She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and most recently was invited to participate in the exclusive Game Design Challenge at the Game Developers Conference where she defeated the maker of Tetris.

Her current works lean toward non-digital, art and social games. She is presently building a series of six “gallery games” for an installation titled The Mechanic is the Message.