All Guests

CONvergence Guests of Honor are chosen very carefully. Of course we want our guests to attend panels and share their knowledge and experience with us, but we also try to invite guests whom we genuinely think will enjoy CONvergence and have fun themselves! It’s not at all uncommon to see current and past Guests of Honor hanging out with members in room parties, mingling with the crowd, and actively participating in CONvergence culture!

Here you can find out all about the CONvergence 2025 Guests of Honor!

Chris Kluwe

Chris Kluwe may be best known for playing football for the Seahawks, Vikings, and Raiders, but there’s more than one type of game in his life. An avid player of World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and Path of Exile. He also created his own tabletop game Twilight of the Gods, wrote Otaku, and is an avid support of same-sex marriage and LGBTA+ rights.

Prof Brown

Prof Brown has been a game designer for over a decade, working in both AAA and indie spaces, and is currently a Principal Designer at Firewalk Studios. As an indie designer, Prof released several experimental personal games, livestreamed game development and game design analysis, and did an academic residency at Harrisburg University. Prof loves mentoring mid-career designers and doing deep dive design analysis.

Tanya DePass

Tanya is the founder and director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit dedicated to the diversification of all things gaming by supporting marginalized developers. She is currently working with Monolith Productions and is the creator and creative director of Into the Motherlands, sci-fi afro-futurist RPG developed with a team of40 all POC and Black creators, and has written numerous articles about gaming.

C. S. E. Cooney

C. S. E. Cooney (she/her) is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author for her novel Saint Death’s Daughter, and for her collection Bone Swans, Stories. As a voice actor, Cooney has narrated over 120 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts such as Uncanny Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tales to Terrify, and Podcastle. With her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez, she co-designed the GM-less TTRPG Negocios Infernales.

More CONvergence 2025 Guests coming soon!

Be sure to check out the CONvergence Schedule for panels and events where you will be able to see this year’s Guests of Honor!