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I’d like to thank all of you for your support of I Need Diverse Games, our initiatives, convention appearances, intermittent Twitch streams and our work. It’s #GivingTuesday, a day to help out programs, foundations, non-profits and others with donations.Here are some ways in which you can support our work:

Patreon — It’s our only steady funding source for our 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The more we’re getting per month, the more we can do for the community.

PayPal.me– For a one time donation to our organization, so we can keep up our work.

Support our Podcast — Fresh Out of Tokens — Supporting the INDG Patreon keeps us on the air. We might open up donations on the podcast page itself in 2017

I Need Diverse Games Spreadshirt shop– Wear your support for diversity in games! Get tees, mugs, hoodies and more to show that you too need diverse games!

As for what we’re up to next, where we’ve been with the work? I’ve learned a lot from the past two years since #INeedDiverseGames became more than a hash tag, to it growing into a non-profit organization with a Board of Directors, and all that we’ve accomplished in a short time. Though 2016 has been a hard year on many of us, we’re still here and still fighting for more diversity in gaming.

We’re hoping for a better year, more growth and lots more interaction with you, our community in 2017. To do that we’re going to push ourselves to do more, be present at more events and get the word out about what we’re doing to our Patrons, our twitter, blog and tumblr followers.

Looking forward to a new year, a better outlook for diversity in the industry and to working with you all to make INDG’s third year unforgettable.

Follow us on Twitter at @INeedDivGms and let us know how we’re doing.

Thanks for a great year.

Sincerely,
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Tanya DePass
Founder & Director, I Need Diverse Games
tanya@ineeddiversegames.org

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Tanya DePass is the founder and Director of I Need Diverse Games, a non-profit organization based in Chicago, which is dedicated to better diversification of all aspects of gaming. I Need Diverse Games serves the community by supporting marginalized developers attend the Game Developer Conference by participating in the GDC Scholarship program, helps assist attendance at other industry events, and is seeking partnership with organizations and initiatives. Tanya is a lifelong Chicagoan who loves everything about gaming, #INeedDiverseGames spawn point, and wants to make it better and more inclusive for everyone. She founded and was the EIC of Fresh Out of Tokens podcast where games culture was discussed and viewed through a lense of feminism, intersectionality and diversity. Now she’s a co-host on Spawn on Me Podcast. Along with all of that, she’s the Programming Coordinator for OrcaCon, she often speaks on issues of diversity, feminism, race, intersectionality & other topics at multiple conventions throughout the year. Her writing about games and games critique appears in Uncanny Magazine, Polygon, Wiscon Chronicles, Vice Gaming, Paste Games, Mic, and other publications.