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December 14, 2021

Karen "Kat" Schrier (she/they) is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Games & Emerging Media program at Marist College. She currently consults as a game designer at the World Health Organization (WHO) and was co-PI on a Templeton Foundation Grant on virtual reality games and empathy. She is also Founder/CEO of PlatyPlay, LLC, which specializes in designing games for inclusion, ethics, and care. Previously, she was a media producer and game designer for Nickelodeon, Scholastic, and BrainPOP. Dr. Schrier is the author/editor of over 100 published works, including We the Gamers: How Games Teach Ethics and Civics (Oxford University Press), the Learning, Education & Games series (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon), and Knowledge Games (Johns Hopkins University Press). Find out more at https://www.karenschrier.com/ and https://platyplay.com...

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December 12, 2021

Kristine Michelle Santos is an assistant professor in the Japanese Studies Program and History Department at the Ateneo de Manila University. Her research looks into women's queer and transformative literacies and cultures, such as Boys Love (BL), within Japan and in Southeast Asia. Her recent publications, "Queer Affective Literacies: Examining "Rotten" Women's Literacies in Japan" in Critical Arts (2020) and “The Bitches of Boys Love Comics: The Pornographic Response of Japan’s Rotten Women,” in Porn Studies (2020) highlight these queer transformative literacies and their transnational impacts....

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December 12, 2021

Matthew Meyer is an illustrator and folklorist based in Japan. He received his BFA in illustration from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2005. His work is focused on Japanese folklore, particularly yokai studies. He is the author of The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons (2012), The Hour of Meeting Evil Spirits (2015), The Book of the Hakutaku (2018), and The Fox’s Wedding (2021). He is also the creator of yokai.com, an online illustrated database of Japanese ghosts and monsters. Website http://yokai.com Patreon https://patreon.com/osarusan...

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December 8, 2021

Laura is co-founder of LunaBeat, an indie game studio making VR & PC games. She works with Scott Adelman, and they've been a team since 2012. Between them they've published 50+ games on mobile, PC, AR & VR. They're currently focused on VR games, and their current Kickstarted game "Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90's" will be released in January 2022. They also successfully Kickstarted the game's prequel, "Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 80's". See all of their games at lunabeat.com!...

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December 8, 2021

Masafumi Monden is a fashion and cultural studies scholar at the University of Sydney specializing in Japanese culture. He writes and teaches on modern Japanese cultural history, art and popular culture, gender studies, literature, and international relations focusing on the socio-political and cultural history between Australia and Asia. His first book, Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan (2015, Bloomsbury Academic) was an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between clothing, gender and identity in modern Japan and the West, and how history framed the development of aesthetics and gender perception. Masafumi’s current projects include the cultural history of fashion, consumerism, aesthetics and the body in modern Japan, and the cultural history between Australia and Japan.  ...

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December 8, 2021

Lucy Fraser is Lecturer in Japanese at The University of Queensland, where she teaches the Japanese language and literature. Her research interests include gender in literature and popular culture in both Japanese and English. She is the author of The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of “The Little Mermaid” (Wayne State University Press, 2017), and the co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2020). She has translated contemporary literature by Kawakami Hiromi and Hoshino Tomoyuki, and literary and cultural studies criticism by renowned Japanese scholars including Honda Masuko and Fujimoto Yukari....

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December 8, 2021

Kathleen Gannon is a graduate of Lesley University with a Masters in Mental Health Counseling with a specialization in Expressive Arts Therapy. As a lifelong anime and comic book fan, she has seen the power of media in her personal life and through her work with clients as a clinician. Her master’s thesis, “Parasocial Relationships with Fictional Characters in Therapy,” is published through Digital Commons and her work has been quoted in various articles about pop culture. In her spare time, she is currently working on her first novel....

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December 8, 2021

Sky LaRell Anderson, Ph.D., is an award-winning researcher, educator, and game designer. He is an Assistant Professor of Digital Media Arts in the Department of Emerging Media at the University of St. Thomas. He researches disability and mental health as portrayed in game design and game cultures. He teaches game design, visual media theory, and other topics related to digital culture. He makes games ranging from the silly (Fetch Quest: The Tiniest RPG) to the extremely personal (D.Personal, XXMormon). Play his games for free at SkyLaRell.net....

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December 4, 2021

Angela Shanté is an award-winning author, multi-hyphenate creative, and fierce advocate for diversity & inclusion in education and in the arts. Her newest title The Noisy Classroom Goes to the Museum is the second book in a series about her unconventional third-grade classroom. In the classroom, she taught emergent learners through college; specializing in literacy and curriculum development. After leaving the classroom Angela worked in publishing for traditional and educational publishers as an Editor, Children’s Book Acquisition Editor, and Consultant. Angela recently launched Sunday Dinner Publishing, an Indie pub focused on inclusive stories and marginalized voices highlighting BIPOC creatives in publishing. Check out her site: https://www.angelashante.com/...

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December 3, 2021

Trista Bytes is a full-time presenter, content creator & Twitch Partner with over 6 years of experience as a variety and comedy entertainer.  Trista has worked their way from a part-time hobbyist Youtuber to a full-time career in the industry, making the leap to full-time Twitch streamer at the start of 2020. Trista's channel is best described as nostalgia, comedy, and nonsense! From retro and indie games to journeys back with the 80s and 90s throwbacks to a whole host of improv comedy characters who appear on chat's command; it's a fun, chaotic, and wholesome place to hang out 5 days a week on Twitch. The channel & its community is also connected to several charities with £10,000 raised over 2020...

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