About Us
Started in 2020, Games for Justice is a summer program for high schoolers of color from the Boston Area to explore, learn, and do game design and digital art while being compensated. The goal of the program is to build a collective for youth game designers of color, grounded in the values of anti-capitalism, economic democracy, collective care, collective/participatory leadership structures, compensation for exploration, and centering voices of color that are actively silenced within the game design field. This project will be done in partnership with The City School, an Dorchester-based organization focused on holding space for and supporting youth leadership in community organizing.
Our Origins
The mainstream game industry has repeatedly failed to center labor rights and anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism, racial justice, queer and gender justice, disability justice, and other anti-oppressive practices both in their games and in their studio structures. In response to this, Husain Rizvi (they/them) and The City School worked together to create Games for Justice. Our work was also inspired by worker-cooperative models and the values of community collectives.