Tanya DePass Biography
Tanya DePass is a journalist, activist, and livestreamer from the United States. She is the founder of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization she founded in 2016.
Tanya DePass Age
She was born in 1973, in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Tanya is 51 years old as of 2023.
Tanya DePass Family
She has not yet disclosed any information about her parents or whether she has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Tanya DePass Husband
She has not gone public with her relationship. However, It is not known whether she is married, engaged, divorced, or single.
Tanya DePass Career
DePass has authored pieces about diversity, feminism, and race for publications such as Polygon and Vice[2], and she consults with game development studios and groups on diversity issues. She is the OrcaCon and GaymerX programming and diversity organizer. DePass is the editor of Game Devs & Others: Tales from the Margins (2018), an anthology of articles from professionals and players in the games industry who have felt excluded by the industry. She is also a 2020 Annenberg Innovation Lab Civic Media Fellow at USC. DePass is one of the co-creators of the Fifth Season RPG, which is based on N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy (2020). Her work has been included in the Design/Play/Disrupt exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
DePass goes under the online alias Cypheroftyr. She is a Twitch streamer who has experienced harassment. During the George Floyd protests in 2020, DePass ran a charity stream to gather donations for The Bail Project, raising more than $140,000 USD in a single day. DePass was the special features editor for Fireside Magazine, which was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine in 2019. DePass was chosen one of four “Gamers of the Year” for 2020 by Kotaku. She was also chosen to The Game Awards 2020’s inaugural Future Class. Her efforts to make the profession more inclusive were featured in the film Game Changer, which was directed by basketball player Tina Charles.The short documentary had its world premiere at Tribeca 2021.
In August 2016, DePass established a non-profit organization called I Need Diverse Games. The Chicago-based organization seeks to increase exposure and access for underrepresented people in the video gaming industry through Patreon and fundraising initiatives. One of the organization’s goals is to provide financial assistance and conference passes to video gaming conventions such as the gaming Developers Conference. DePass participates in the Rivals of Waterdeep actual play webcast, which boasts a diverse roster of characters. The show debuted in Chicago in 2018 as an official Wizards of the Coast production, broadcasting on the Dungeons & Dragons Twitch channel. She is also the creator of the Cortex real-life play series Into the Mother Lands. In 2021, DePass became a player in The Black Dice Society, a Ravenloft themed Dungeons & Dragons actual play show on the official Wizards of the Coast channels.
Tanya DePass Net Worth
Tanya has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
