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December 20, 2022

Chris Zukowski is a game marketing consultant and strategist. He has helped Games as a Service companies, Indie Publishers, and small to single-person teams understand their audience and communicate with them in a more personal way. He specializes in optimizing your marketing for the Steam algorithm, creating fantastic Steam pages that sell themselves and setting up Email marketing campaigns that your fans will look forward to opening. You can read more of his work at: https://howtomarketagame.com/...

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December 15, 2022

Justine Mastin, LMFT is a psychotherapist, author, and so much more. She is the owner of Blue Box Counseling in Minneapolis, MN, where she specializes in working clients who self-identify as being outside of the cultural mainstream—such as those in the geek, LGBTQIA+, and cultic recovery communities. Outside of the therapy office, Justine is the co-author of The Grieving Therapist: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients When it Feels Like the End of the World, and Starship Therapise: Using Therapeutic Fanfiction to Rewrite Your Life. She has also contributed to numerous other books on pop culture and psychology, and co-hosts both the Starship Therapise and Dark Side of the Mat podcasts. Justine is proud to teach future therapists as an adjunct faculty member at University of Massachusetts Global and...

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December 2, 2022

Writer by trade Cosplayer since 2017, Kigurumi since 2021 Hope to spread the joy of his craft!...

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December 1, 2022

Van Alvin Dino is a current online artist creating hentai manga and a former hentai YouTuber. Check him out his social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SweetVaennylla Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTFXQumA2W224qDLgSnG0Uw Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/23101495 Fanbox: https://vaenny.fanbox.cc/...

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December 1, 2022

Dr Georgia Thomas-Parr is a Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies, SOAS, University of London (UK). Her research is interested in girlhood both as a representation in global media as well as a lived experience. In particular, her work focuses on British maid cafes and feminine-presenting, kawaii-oriented cosplay subcultures in the UK....

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November 28, 2022

A graduate of NYU film school, Eric "Herman" Sherman migrated to Hollywood to “make it big.” He now serves as President & CEO of Bang Zoom! Studios - a leading post-production house in the entertainment industry. Bang Zoom! is well-known for producing the English language versions of many leading anime titles, including the most successful foreign-language film in history, DEMON SLAYER. Sherman also directed many anime series, including Samurai Champloo, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Emmy for the animated original series, Lost in Oz. On the creative side of Bang Zoom!, Sherman serves as Sound Supervisor on various original animation productions, including the Emmy Award-nominated Tales of Dark and Grimm and The Amazing Spiderman. His original...

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November 28, 2022

Mami Okada is the Casting Director and Director of Operations at Bang Zoom! Studios, where she has worked on numerous animated series and films, video games, and anime for nearly 20 years. Okada has cast such hits as DEMON SLAYER: MUGEN TRAIN (#1 Box Office hit), ONE PUNCH MAN (Cartoon Network), DEMON SLAYER (Cartoon Network), SWORD ART ONLINE (Cartoon Network), THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Netflix), JOJO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE (Cartoon Network/Netflix), RESIDENT EVIL 3 (Remake - Voice & MoCap, Capcom), Pokémon Masters (The Pokémon Company), RAINBOW BUTTERFLY UNICORN KITTY (Nickelodeon), LEGO FRIENDS, and International Emmy Awards nominated (Kids: Pre-school) SUPER WINGS (Amazon) to name a few. Okada and Bang Zoom! Studios are passionate about cultivating new talent. They are well known for seeking...

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November 28, 2022

Benjamin Taitz is a registered psychological associate in California working in clinical and forensic psychology. He is currently a psychology doctoral candidate at California Southern University working on his dissertation examining the effectiveness of Geek Therapy in building rapport and therapeutic engagement with clients. He is also the co-host of two podcasts: Mental Health Quest, a podcast dedicated to de-stigmatizing mental health and explaining mental health conditions and treatments; and My Hero Therapy, a podcast looking at the psychology of the My Hero Academia anime and exploring how we can be heroes in real life....

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November 28, 2022

Dr. Hassler is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist hailing from Buffalo, NY. She is trained in multiple therapy modalities, specifically Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Dr. Hassler received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Medaille College in December of 2018; however, has been treating patients since 2013 in various settings such as schools, psychiatric hospitals, private practices, and state and private agencies for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her focus is mainly on treating children and adolescents struggling with anxiety, depression, and trauma; however, does work with adults struggling with similar disorders as well as personality disorders. Dr. Hassler identifies herself as a full-time geek whose heart has been claimed by all things Batman. In addition,...

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November 28, 2022

Gamma Rae is a lawyer by day, a cosplayer by night, a geek always, and a Strawhat Pirate on the weekends. She has been cosplaying since 2018 after attending her first comic con where she discovered her passion for cosplaying. Her proudest achievement as a Cosplayer is when she won Best Innovation: Beginner for the 2022 Crunchyroll Hime’s Cosplay Cup with my Yamato cosplay. Rae has a serious addiction to anime and manga which is where she gets most of her cosplay inspirations. When it comes to cosplaying she doesn't box herself into cosplaying just certain characters. She has so much fun cosplaying the various characters she gets inspired by and adding her own black girl magic twist to the cosplay. She...

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