Glasgow 2024 today announced Tanya DePass (she/her) as a Special Guest of the 2024 Worldcon. She is an award-winning games content creator and developer, and creator of the Into the Mother Lands RPG.
 
Tanya DePass is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming and wants to make the industry better and more inclusive for everyone. She is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. She was part of the Rivals of Waterdeep actual play stream from its inception, and is the creator and Creative Director of Into the Mother Lands, a new sff afrofuturist RPG developed with a team of all POC and Black creators.
 
Tanya often writes and speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality and other topics online, at conventions and as a public speaker. She was special features editor of 2019 Best Semiprozine finalist Fireside Magazine
 
According to convention chair Esther MacCallum-Stewart, “I’m delighted to welcome Tanya as a Special Guest. As a huge TTRPG fan and scholar, I’ve followed her work for some time, including the brilliant Into The Motherlands actual play roleplay, and through her work as the founder of I Need Diverse Games. I’ll see you in Glasgow, Tanya!!!”

About Tanya DePass: Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. She is also part of the Rivals of Waterdeep actual play stream on twitch.tv/rivalsofwaterdeep and a partnered Twitch variety broadcaster.
 
Tanya has 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. She’s also the creator and Creative Director of Into the Mother Lands, a new sff afrofuturist RPG developed with a team of all POC and Black creators; live streamed on her twitch channel, twitch.tv/cypheroftyr.
 
Tanya was named as one of The Game Awards Future Class 2020 and as one of the Gamers of the Year 2020 by Kotaku. Her work to make the industry more inclusive has been highlighted in the documentary Game Changer, directed by Tina Charles.
 
Tanya is the programming and diversity coordinator for OrcaCon and GaymerX. She also serves on the Board of Directors for OrcaCon and was named the Chair for Take This in January 2023. She’s the editor of Game Devs and Others: Tales from the Margins (2018, CRC Press) and contributed to The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox. (2019, CRC Press).
 
Tanya’s full biography can be found on the Glasgow 2024 website.
 
Follow Tanya online at https://linktr.ee/cypheroftyr.

[Based on a press release.]