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.
As the creator and creative director of Twitch-supported Into the Mother Lands, the game is live-streamed on her twitch channel. She’s also contributed to publications at Green Ronin, Paizo, and Monte Cook Games and is the co-developer for the Fifth Season RPG based on N.K. Jemisin’s three-time Hugo award-winning Broken Earth trilogy. Additionally, she is a Senior Annenberg labs Civic Media Fellow at USC.
You can follow Tanya DePass on Twitch as cypheroftyr, Instagram as @cypheroftyr, Bluesky as @cypheroftyr.bsky.social, Tumblr as cypheroftyr, and TikTok as @cypheroftyr.
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