Cierra McDonald is an Executive Producer at 343 Industries, the Halo game studio. Her college degree is in Computer Science, but in her 20 years at Microsoft, Cierra has worked as an engineer, a program manager, a product manager, and a producer. At Xbox, she has led development in a lot of areas, like Games for Windows Live, Xbox Achievements, Xbox Series X|S, and now Halo Infinite.

Belinda Garcia-Maguid is a first-generation, Filipina-American Game Writer and Narrative Designer at Crystal Dynamics, currently working on the future of Tomb Raider. She has previously written on both indie and AAA titles like Stonefly and Call of Duty. Belinda is passionate about creating diverse, empathetic characters that reflect the world around her. She resides in the Bay Area – where she was born and raised – with her partner and two cats, Zuko and Jett. In her free time, you can find her at the gym, at the movies, or at a bookstore.

Michaela (she/her) is a Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in player and combat systems. She has worked at various studios such as BioWare, Visceral and has been at Crystal Dynamics since 2018. She lives in the Bay Area with her cats, Max & Zoe, and loves the warm weather and her (very large) plant collection.

Lizzie (she/her) is an Environment Artist at Crystal Dynamics, working with lots of talented ‘Crystallites’  to bring the environments in our video games to life.  She has a master's degree in game art from Escape Studios, London. Her passion for the arts started at an early age and she has been drawing and painting since she could pick up a pencil! In her spare time Lizzie is a keen photographer and loves capturing dramatic portraits.

Mary has been lighting in the photography industry for almost a decade now and after getting a little taste of doing lighting in the CGI world, she’s come to love it just as much, if not more, and has adapted her photographic lighting skills and ways of seeing, to lighting characters and environments for video games.

Scot’s been living his dream of making video games for more than 25 years. From six-man startups to global giants like Electronic Arts, Scot’s worked on all major platforms and on many fan-favorite franchises at Visceral Games, Maxis, Midway, Accolade, Sierra On-Line, and has been proud to be a part of the Crystal Dynamics legacy since 2011.

Hannah is an Animation Intern at Crystal Dynamics this summer. Although she's been learning 3D animation for about three years, Hannah's been drawing since she was a kid. When she has free time, you'll find her working on her own stories and characters.

Magali Stretton is a senior level designer at Crystal working on the next Tomb Raider game. Originally from France, Magali has lived in London, UK for a few years before landing in San Francisco, California. Her life changed after playing a game called ICO. That game inspired her to change her career and become a game developer. After graduating from an MA in Game Design, Magali joined Rocksteady Studios in London where she learnt her craft working as level designer on the 3 Batman Arkham games created by the studio. Magali’s philosophy is to always look forward and stay open to new experiences to keep learning and growing as a person.

Serena (she/her) is a Character Tech Artist at Crystal Dynamics. Starting out in the film/vfx industry, Serena worked on a number of movies and game trailers. She discovered her passion for game development after working on trailers for games like Fortnite and Borderlands. She is a programmer with the heart of an artist, using her technical coding skills to assist the artistic process in any way she can. Outside of work you can find her hiking, creating new recipes, or playing with her cat Margarita Bill.

Erica Mehallo has been living and breathing dialog for video games over the past 10 years. She kick started her career at Soundelux DMG, where she specialized in organizing dialog recording for video games. She then spent 5+ years as Dialog Coordinator at Sony Playstation in Santa Monica, responsible for casting, recording, editing, implementing, and localizing AAA titles. Erica joined Formosa Interactive in March of 2016 as Senior Project Manager, where she maintains a persistent dedication to streamlining all facets of the dialog process, with a specialized passion for enhancing localization standards and practices for video games.

She is currently the Director of Voice Over Services.

Kirsten Scoles (Senior Producer/Head of Casting) tripped and fell into her second career as a voiceover producer and casting director for video games. Having begun her professional life as an actor, she soon discovered the appeal of a steady paycheck and health insurance, taking a job at a sound studio as a receptionist. Fourteen years later, she is a Senior Producer and the Head of Casting at Formosa Interactive (and still an actor!). In addition to responsibilities including negotiating talent, scheduling sessions, and overseeing budgeting for Formosa's projects, she also serves as casting director for games of all genres and sizes, from small one-off mobile games to larger AAA titles within beloved franchises. Her days are often spent building and distributing character breakdowns, in headphones reviewing VO auditions, and glued to her laptop screen, evaluating on-camera reads for performance capture. Her favorite part of the job is helping to connect the creatives on the dev side with the performers best suited to help them tell their particular stories. Oh, and saying to an actor, "You booked it!" That's pretty cool, too.

She is currently the Head of Casting.

Meagan Marie (She/Her) is an author and game industry veteran that has worked in games journalism, community, and social media for nearly two decades. She has a passion for video game accessibility and women in gaming initiatives and is a Certified Accessible Player Experience Practitioner and Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund Ambassador.

Jakob is a Senior Gameplay Animator. He has been working at Crystal Dynamics since 2019, and has worked on games like The Sims 4, Marvel's Avengers, and Shadowrun Hong Kong. He lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter and loves to play basketball.

Laura has been an engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment for six years. She worked on the production and release of Bend Studio's Days Gone for their gameplay and weapons systems. She is currently working on a new IP for Bend Studio as a Gameplay Programmer. Laura went to Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont where she has a Bachelor of Science in Game Programming. Besides gaming outside of work, Laura loves spending time with friends, in the outdoors, and with her two cats.

Hi, I’m Sophie Richards and I’ve been working at Sucker Punch Productions as a Gameplay Programmer since October 2021. Before that I was in college on the east coast for computer science and game development. I’ve pretty much been into games all my life and I particularly enjoy playing RPGs.

Lauren Ng is a Project Manager at Insomniac Games, her most recent work includes being the Localization and Legal PM on Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. She has previously worked on other titles like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Lauren is passionate about localization and being able to share video games with global audiences. She lives in Durham with her partner and two cats, Yuji and Omori. In her free time, you can find her journaling or playing a JRPG.