Lindsay Grace is Knight Chair in Interactive Media at the University of Miami School of Communication. He is Vice President for the Higher Education Video Game Alliance and the 2019 recipient of the Games for Change Vanguard award. Lindsay’s book, Doing Things with Games, Social Impact through Design, is a guide to game design. In 2020, he edited and authored Love and Electronic Affection: a Design Primer on designing love and affection in games. In 2021 he published the Amazon best seller, Black Game Studies, an Introduction to the games, game makers and scholarship of the African diaspora.

His work has received awards and recognition from the Games for Change Festival, the Digital Diversity Network, the Association of Computing Machinery’s digital arts community, Black Enterprise and others. He authored or co-authored more than 95 papers, articles and book chapters on games since 2009. His creative work has been selected for showcases internationally including New York, Paris, São Paulo, Singapore, Chicago, Vancouver, Istanbul, and others. Lindsay curated or co-curated Blank Arcade and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s SAAM Arcade. He has given talks at the Game Developers Conference, SXSW, Games for Change Festival, the Online News Association, and the Society for News Design. His appearances include domestic and international television and radio. 

He was the founding director of the American University Game Lab and Studio. He also served as Vice President and on the board of directors for the Global Game Jam. He was Armstrong Professor at Miami University’s School of Art and served on the board for the Digital Games Research Association.