Tanya C. DePass

Tanya is the Founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit foundation based in Chicago. She’s part of Rivals of Waterdeep, an actual play D&D show on twitch.tv/dnd; the programming coordinator for OrcaCon & GaymerX; and often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at conventions. Her writing appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Vice Gaming, Mic, Waypoint, Wiscon Chronicles, Paste Games and other publications. She’s the editor of Game Devs and Others: Tales from the Margins (2018, CRC Press) and contributed to The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox. (2019, CRC Press).