Janavi Padala ’25

Janavi Padala
Janavi is a senior double majoring in Media, Arts & Sciences (concentrating in Computer Science and Game Design) and East Asian Languages and Cultures (concentrating in Chinese).

Currently, she is writing her thesis on how video games can be used to combat media-based misinformation. This past summer, she worked with Tanbii, a company which is gamifying environmental protection by linking real world actions with the health of the virtual world and vice versa. She spent her prior semester in Singapore studying interactive media design and East Asian politics and was happy to get a chance to use her fluent Mandarin and elementary Hindi. She hopes to learn many more languages. On campus, she is a Computer Science teaching assistant and leads the Wellesley Game Development and D&D clubs in addition to acting with Upstage. Post graduation she plans to work on game development abroad and hopes to eventually create her own studio focused on games for social change.