about we ghostsabout we ghosts

Baby Ghosts is the nonprofit arm of social impact investment firm Weird Ghosts, delivering year-round programs to support underrepresented game developers and founders in Canada.

board of directors

We are actively recruiting for our board of directors. If you or someone you know would be a good fit, please get in touch!

what we do

  • provide grants to game studios run by founders who face marginalization and underrepresentation due to gender, race, queerness, disability, religion, housing status, economic status, immigration or citizenship status
  • foster community engagement and support among underrepresented game developers and founders through tailored mentorship, skill-building workshops, and business development programs
  • conduct research, data collection, and publishing on the topic of equitable game funding in Canada

staff

Eileen Mary Holowka

Eileen Mary Holowka, PhD

Co-executive director

eileen (they/she) is a queer and disabled white settler living on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg. They are a writer, game dev, and community organizer/advocate with a background in theatre, games, poetry, and health communications. They have a PhD in communication studies from Concordia University and have published extensively within and outside of academia.

They are a co-founder of both Weird Ghosts and Baby Ghosts with Jennie Robinson Faber, as well as a member of Gamma Space Collaborative Studio. They also work as the general manager of Infinite Ammo.

Jennie Robinson Faber

Jennie Robinson Faber

Co-executive director

Jennie (she) is a queer white settler community arts advocate and organizer, software developer, and leader in the IDM industry for over 15 years. She co-founded the videogame arts nonprofits DMG Toronto (with Cecily Carver and Alex Leitch) and Gamma Space Collaborative Studio (with Henry Faber and Dann Toliver) in 2012. In 2015, she joined the board of the Toronto Media Arts Centre, and became its operations director in 2017.

She has served on a number of arts- and industry-related boards, with Ontario Creates, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, and the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, among others. She co-chaired the 2016 edition of IndieCade, presented at the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in NYC.

studios

For the safety of our community, we’ve temporarily removed the list of studios who have participated in our programs due to an ongoing harassment campaign.