Speakers

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Trinidad (Hermida) Black (she/her) is the Executive Director of The Black in Gaming Foundation and the Founder & CEO of The Hermida Company LLC, a consulting firm focused on “Building Equity through Empathy.”

Dr. Brooks currently is co-editor with Tobias van Veen and Reynaldo Anderson of the Afrofuturist Studies and Speculative Arts book series with Lexington Press.

Co-founder, Creative Director and owner of the independent game studio, Interabang Entertainment.

Julian C. Chambliss is a Professor of English and the Val Berryman Curator of History at the MSU Museum at Michigan State University. In addition, he is the faculty lead for the Department of English Graphic Possibilities Research Workshop and a core participant in the MSU College of Arts & Letters’ Consortium for Critical Diversity in a Digital Age Research (CEDAR). His research interests focus on race, culture, and power in real and imagined spaces. His recent writing has appeared in Scholarly Editing, Genealogy, KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, and The Conversation US.

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Joanthan Jennings is a game lover, software engineer, and game designer in that order. He has developed over 20 published applications and his projects have seen millions of downloads across multiple platforms.

Dr. Inya Lawal is the Country chair (Nigeria) on Export and Credits for the Women Economic Forum.

Derek Tyler Attico is a science fiction author, essayist, and photographer. H

C’Vonzell Dondrico is a filmmaker and aspiring tech entrepreneur.