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Introduction
Ph.D. is an award-winning designer, writer, artist, and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics.

Career
She is an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures at Michigan State University. During her Ph.D. in Interactive Arts and Technology from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, she was a Research Assistant for Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace and continues that partnership as a Research Affiliate in the Initiative for Indigenous Futures.

Elizabeth LaPensee obtained her PhD by contributing extensive research pertaining to initiatives towards Indigenous futures. Specifically, she received her doctorate from the Simon Fraser University, which is located in British Columbia, Canada.

Games

 * When Rivers Were Trails, Creative Director, 2019 educational 2D adventure game which follows an Anishinaabeg in the 1890’s who is displaced from Fond du Lac in Minnesota to California due to the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities
 * Dialect, 2017 is a story game where players participate in an isolated community whose language emerges and must be protected from loss as they establish values, interact, and face challenges through modular world-building
 * Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, 2017 is a bleak American folk tale about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
 * Thunderbird Strike, 2D sidescroller in which you fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Island with searing lightning against the snake that threatens to swallow the lands and waters whole.
 * Narrative Designer & Writer Coyote Quest (2017) is a point-and-click adventure game for the web based on Coyote's Crazy Smart Science Show on Aboriginal Peoples Television Network that engages in Indigenous science through Coyote's tricky style.
 * Manoominike (2017)
 * Designer & Artist Mikan (2017) Inspired by traditional moccasin game, Mikan is a finding game on mobile (Android and iOS) Design and art done by Elizabeth LaPensee programming by Tyler Coleman, and sound by Jon Whiting
 * Designer, Artist, Writer Honour Water (2016)  is a singing game for mobile (iOS) developed by Pinnguaq with art and design by Elizabeth LaPensée.
 * Designer & Writer Little Earth Strong (2016) is a gameful health intervention program where youth are superheroes who activate gifts based on the Seven Teachings by completing powerup challenges.
 * Producer & Artist Singuistics: Anishinaabemowin (2016) is a singing game for mobile (iOS) which passes on language featuring singing by the Miskwaasining Nagamojig with design by Pinnguaq and art by Elizabeth LaPensée, Shaun Hedican, Simone McLeod, and more.
 * Designer & Programmer Invaders (2015) (with Trevino Brings Plenty and Steven Paul Judd) With design and programming by Elizabeth LaPensée, art by Steven Paul Judd, and music by Trevino Brings Plenty, Invaders for web and mobile is a spin on the classic arcade game Space Invaders
 * Designer, Artist, Programmer Ninagamomin ji-nanaandawi'iwe (2015) Ninagamomin ji-nanaandawi'iwe (We Sing for Healing) is a musical choose-your-own adventure text game for web with design, art, and programming by Elizabeth LaPensée
 * Designer & Writer The Gift of Food (2014) The Gift of Food is a board game about traditional Northwest Native foods by the Northwest Indian College.
 * Co-Designer Gathering Native Foods (2014) Gathering Native Foods is a suite of touchscreen mini-games
 * Designer & Writer Max's Adventure (2013) In the social impact game Max's Adventures designed and written by Elizabeth LaPensée,
 * Co-Designer Mawisowin (2012) Mawisowin is an arcade style web game for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network show Back in the Day.
 * Designer Survivance (2011) Survivance is a social impact game designed by Elizabeth LaPensée that asks us to explore our presence and create works of art as a pathway to healing
 * Designer & Writer: Techno Medicine Wheel (2008) alternate reality game from the Aboriginal History Media Arts Lab. Little People lead players on adventures throughout traditional territories in Vancouver, British Columbia as they learn about traditional medicinal plants and their care and uses.
 * Writer: Venture Arctic (2007) Venture Arctic is an eco sim from award-winning indie game company Pocketwatch Games with writing and cultural research by Elizabeth LaPensée that challenges the player to act as Mother Nature, acknowledging the impact of oil industry on the life far north in the midst of growth in the sun and destruction in the wind.

Comics

 * Co-editor: Deer Woman: An Anthology (2017)


 * Co-editor: Sovereign Traces Volume 1: Not (Just) (An)Other (2018)
 * Editor: Sovereign Traces Volume 2: Relational Constellation (2019).
 * Writer & Colorist: Of Ash and Snow, 2019
 * Artist:  The Strange People, 2018. Written by Louise Erdrich with art by Elizabeth LaPensée,
 * Writer: They Who Walk As Lightning, 2017 Written by Elizabeth LaPensée with art by Richard Pace
 * Writer: Deer Woman: A Vignette, 2015 edited by Allie Vasquez, and illustrated by Jonathan Thunder
 * Writer: The Observing, 2015 Written by Elizabeth LaPensée for MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection (AH Comics) with art by GMB Chomichuk
 * Writer: Copper Heart, 2015 Written by Elizabeth LaPensée for MOONSHOT: The Indigenous Comics Collection (AH Comics) with pencils by Claude St-Aubin and color by Andy Stanleigh
 * Writer & Artist: Our Words, 2012 With art and writing by Elizabeth LaPensée
 * Writer & Artist: The Nature of Snakes, 2012  writing and art by Elizabeth LaPensée and Anishinaabemowin translations by Perry Bebamash.
 * Writer: Fala, 2008 written by Elizabeth LaPensée which was created through winning the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's Comic Creation Nation Contest
 * Writer: The West Was Lost, 2008 written by Elizabeth LaPensée which was created through winning the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's Comic Creation Nation Contest

Art

 * Cut Off the Head, Burn the Body, 2018
 * Coywolf Emerges, 2018
 * Next Generations, 2018
 * Restoration, 2018
 * Fox Pounces, 2018
 * Once There Were Wolverines, 2018
 * Where the Crane Dances, 2017
 * Nokomis Tends the Lands with Waters in Hand, 2017
 * Light From Within, 2017
 * Deer Medicine, 2017
 * Manoominike Mazina'anang, 2017
 * Zhashagikwe, 2017
 * Emblem, 2017
 * With Songs To Pull Oil from Water, 2017
 * Bitwork Butterfly, 2017
 * She Dances Light, 2017
 * Chickadee Sings Us, 2017
 * Nagamtadizowag, 2017
 * They Come As Lightning, 2016
 * Anaamakamig, 2016
 * Awasishkode, 2016
 * Connected, 2016
 * Our Grandmothers Carry Water from the Other World, 2016
 * Along the River of Spacetime, 2016
 * Returning to Ourselves, 2016
 * The Water Carries Her, She Carries the Water, 2016
 * The Good Journey, 2016
 * The Women, They Hold the Ground, 2015
 * Balance, 2015
 * Resilience, 2015
 * They Speak of What Comes, 2015
 * Spacecanoe, 2015
 * Memories of the Future, 2015
 * Rip Off Its Head, 2015
 * The Snake That Swallows Us Whole, 2015
 * They Are Answering, 2015
 * Niimikodaadi'ing, 2015
 * Always, 2015
 * Bitwork Beadwork: Seeding the Stars, 2015
 * Bitwork Beadwork: Esteem, 2015
 * Bitwork Beadwork: Blood Memory, 2015
 * Thunderbird Circles, 2014
 * On Scrolls Carried by Canoe, 2014
 * Communication, 2014
 * Waaban-anang, 2014
 * Of the People Who Sing for Water, 2014
 * We Sing for Healing, 2014
 * Sugar Buzz, 2014
 * The Other World, 2013
 * Growth, 2013
 * Echoes of the Next Generations, 2013
 * Anishinaabemowin
 * Anishinaabemowin: Owiiyaw A Guide to Body Parts in Anishinaabemowin
 * Nenda-noojimojig, 2016  ("The Ones Who Seek Healing")
 * Anishinaabe Moons Posters, 2016
 * Immersion House Labels, 2014
 * Owiiyaw, 2014 Full Human Body
 * Okanimaanan, 2014 Full Human Skeleton
 * Oshtigwaan, 2014 Human Head
 * Omisad, 2014 Human Upper Body

Award
Named “Human of the Year” by Motherboard in 2017

2018 Guggenheim Fellowship Award.

Games

 * Won Best Digital Media at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival for Thunderbird Strike (2017).
 * The Path Without End (2011) which was curated by the Museum of Contemporary Native Art
 * Returning (2015) which was awarded Best Animation at Montréal First Peoples Festival 2016
 * Hands to the Sky (2016) which was awarded Best Animation at Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival 2017.
 * Serious Games Community Leadership Award (2017).
 * Awarded Developer Choice at IndieCade 2017. Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, 2017
 * Exhibited at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2018. Coyote Quest, 2017

Comics

 * Awesome Foundation Portland's Peoples' Choice Award. Deer Woman: A Vignette, 2015
 * Bronze Medal for "Best Graphic Novel - Drama" at the 2018 Independent Publisher's Awards. "Best Anthology" at the 2018 Joe Shuster Awards. They Who Walk As Lightning, 2017
 * Bronze Medal for “Best Graphic Novel” at the 20th Annual Independent Publisher’s Awards. Named "The Best Book of 2015" by the School Library Journal. The Observing, 2015
 * Bronze Medal for “Best Graphic Novel” at the 20th Annual Independent Publisher’s Awards. Named "The Best Book of 2015" by the School Library Journal. Copper Heart, 2015

Games Exhibited

 * Exhibited at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2018. Coyote Quest, 2017
 * Exhibited at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2016, Water Moves MSU, Frozen River Film Festival 2016, and Asinabka Festival 2017. Honour Water, 2016
 * Shown at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2015, Indie Revolution Expo 2016, and Digital Games Research Association + Foundations of Digital Games Conference 2016. Invaders, 2015
 * Shown at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2015. Curated by Planet IndigenUS 2015 and SAW Gallery. Ninagamomin ji-nanaandawi'iwe, 2015
 * Shown at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2013 and Nominated at IndieCade 2016. Featured in "Games Can Preserve Indigenous Stories and Oral Histories." Survivance, 2011

Books Exhibited

 * The Nature of Snakes, 2012 Premiered at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2012.
 * The West Was Lost, 2008 Shown at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2010