{"id":96443,"date":"2019-07-10T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/346395"},"modified":"2019-07-10T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T21:12:00","slug":"new-executive-directors-named-for-both-the-igda-and-the-igda-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/10\/new-executive-directors-named-for-both-the-igda-and-the-igda-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"New executive directors named for both the IGDA and the IGDA Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has announced new executive directors for both the IGDA and the IGDA Foundation, filling leadership vacancies left by Jen MacLean\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/340346\/IGDA_executive_director_Jen_MacLean_has_stepped_down.php\">departure in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Renee Gittins has been named the new executive director of the IGDA, a move that comes after serving on the organization\u2019s board of directors for more than two years and pulls her from her soon to be former position as a solutions architect at Spirit AI.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, Gittinis notes that her plans for the future of the IGDA include taking an active role in representing the needs and rights of game developers, and&nbsp;kicking off an initiative to foster the IGDA\u2019s community as part of that effort.<\/p>\n<p>The IGDA Foundation, the IGDA\u2019s charitable organization, has named former ESA head of public affairs Nika Nour as its own executive director. Nour herself has spent more than ten years working with companies on social and cultural impact initiatives, and has held positions at the ESA, Internet Association, and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and commerce. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiversity and inclusion efforts are critical to ensuring the growth and success of video game developers, players,&nbsp;and businesses,\u201d said Nour. \u201cThe industry can do more to support women, minorities, LGBTQ, accessibility needs and underserved communities, and the IGDA Foundation\u2019s work would be incomplete if we didn\u2019t focus on the whole inclusivity pipeline.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has announced new executive directors for both the IGDA and the IGDA Foundation, filling leadership vacancies left by Jen MacLean\u2019s departure in April. Renee Gittins has been named the new executive director of the IGDA, a move that comes after serving on the organization\u2019s board of directors for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}