Alenda Y. Chang (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book, Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games (University of Minnesota Press, December 2019), develops groundbreaking ecological frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. Chang is also the co-founder of the digital media studio Wireframe, which supports collaborative research and teaching in new media with an emphasis on global human rights and social and environmental justice.