Change The Game x Future Class Mentorship

President, Latinx in Gaming

Cristina Amaya was born in Colombia, raised by Colombian/Cuban parents in the US. She has worked at many companies such as Twitch, Unity & more. She is on the board of directors for the IGDA & runs the non-profit, Latinx in Gaming. Cristina wants gaming to be a banner of multicultural diversity. She believes that there's a future in which everybody has a seat at the table.

Associate Design Manager, Bungie

Christine Gutierrez is of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent. Gaming has been a vital part of her life especially growing up in the foster care system. She has worked for Mojang Studios, Activision Blizzard as a Design Lead, and is currently a Design Manager at Bungie. She's dedicated to improving representation, mentoring, and continues to collaborate to create a more inclusive gaming industry.

Head of External Game Development, Netflix

Leanne has been making games for 18+ years, starting in Indie dev working on IPs including Magic the Gathering. At EA she married her love for cars and games, leading multiple Need for Speed titles. After creating and leading Riot Forge, Riots external publishing Label, Leanne moved to Netflix to lead external game dev. Leanne is an ambassador for diversity in teams through mentorship and events.

Licensing Production Manager (Star Wars), Zynga

As Licensing Production Manager for Star Wars at Zynga, Dianna Lora has made it her mission by reaching back and helping others, elevating voices, and fighting for impactful change in gaming, internally and publicly. She's been in the gaming industry for 13 years, working at companies like Sony, Ubisoft, and Deep Silver. Dianna is a Bronx Chica at heart (Yerr) and is now living in Austin, TX.

VP of Product Management, Actvision

Currently a VP of Product for Call of Duty, Michelle Bresaw has spent the last 15 years working on amazing game franchises, including Guitar Hero, Crash, Skylanders, THPS and Sekiro to name a few. Her mixed Latina roots and time spent around the world have driven her passion for diversity, dedicating her spare time to mentorship, leading a women’s circle and driving DE&I initiatives at Activision.

Founder & CEO, Code Coven

Tara Mustapha (she/her) is an award-winning, game designer and producer who has worked with many studios including Microsoft, EA and Glow Up and on titles such as the Skate series, Monster Lab and HBO's Insecure: The Come Up game. Tara founded Code Coven in 2018; the first global games industry accelerator and learning community for underrepresented talent.

Electrical Engineer (Starlink), SpaceX

Stephanie Rosales is an electrical engineer on the Starlink team at SpaceX, providing the world with fast, accessible internet. She previously owned quality assurance for performance and compatibility on the game VALORANT at Riot Games, where she joined the Diversity and Inclusion Council and supported accessibility features. Before this, she worked in QA on The Last of Us Part II at Naughty Dog.

Lead Narrative Designer, Capy Games

Kaitlin Tremblay is the lead narrative designer at Capybara Games. Previously, she was the team lead narrative designer at Ubisoft and was the lead writer on A Mortician's Tale with Laundry Bear Games. Kaitlin has worked in AAA, indie, ARGs, and mobile and was a co-director at DMG, an organization dedicated to making space for queer and gender-marginalized people to create games freely.

Game Designer, Brass Lion Entertainment
Co-founder Latinx in Gaming

Elaine is a Puerto Rican game designer at Brass Lion Entertainment. She is one of the co-founders of Latinx in Gaming (LXIG), a non-profit organization building community for Latinx creatives in the games industry. She is passionate about representation in games, supporting aspiring designers and developers from marginalized communities around the world through mentorship.

CEO, Talofa Games

Jenny is a long-distance runner, artist, programmer, gamer, farmer, Forbes 30 Under 30: Games recipient, and CEO of Talofa Games from Cupertino, She also solo develops horror-comedy mobile games for her indie game company, JCSoft Inc. In her 12 years in the gaming industry, she’s created 130+ games for web and mobile with 10 shipped titles on the mobile app stores with over 9.2 million downloads.

CEO & Co-founder, W!CKED SAiNTS STUDIOS

Jess, an Emmy Award-winning storyteller, is an international peacebuilder turned game designer. She is the CEO/Co-founder of W!CKED SAiNTS Studios, which uses behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. W!CKED SAiNTS just emerged out of Niantic Labs’ incubator with a prototype for their game World Reborn, the world’s first adventure activism game.

Accessibility Lead & Game Designer, The Odd Gentlemen

Morgan Baker is an Accessibility Lead and Game Designer for The Odd Gentlemen. In addition to her full-time role, she provides assistance to game studios to ensure they are designing with accessibility in mind. Partners include Naughty Dog, Square Enix, Xbox Games Studios, Netflix Gaming, and more. She is committed to ensuring that everyone can game, regardless of ability.

Director of Inclusive Design & Product Development, Electronic Arts

As Head of Inclusive Design at Electronic Arts, Tülay McNally is responsible for establishing EA's global strategy and approach to bring inclusive design and thinking to the core of game design. Beginning her career in the games industry more than 15 years ago she has worked at studios like SEGA, Square Enix, BioWare and DICE. Tülay is originally from Turkey and was raised in Munich, Germany.

Game Director, Minecraft

Agnes Larsson is the Game Director of Minecraft. In 2016, she started as a programmer and designer of Minecraft and today she is leading her team as they craft new exciting experiences for the players. Her goal and passion is to develop Minecraft updates that inspire millions of players, and creates as much long-term player delight and trust as posssible.

Art Director (Psychonauts 2), Doublefine

Lisette Titre-Montgomery is an Art Director with 19 years of game development experience. She has contributed to high profile games such as, Tiger Woods Golf, SIMS 4, Dante’s Inferno, Dance Central 3, and more. She is currently working on Psychonauts 2 with Double Fine Productions. She is also a board member of Gameheadsoakland.org, a Game Development Accelerator program for Oakland youth.

Senior Foley Artist, Sony Playstation

Joanna Fang is an Emmy award winning Taiwanese American sound designer and senior Foley artist for Sony Playstation Studios. She has performed custom sounds for hundreds of films, television shows, and games. In 2016, she became the first openly transgender woman of color to win a Primetime Emmy. Her most recently titles include Horizon Forbidden West, and Netflix's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.