Speakers
TreaAndrea Russworm, Professor and Microsoft Endowed Chair, University of Southern California
TreaAndrea M. Russworm is the Microsoft Endowed Chair and Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California. Russworm is the author of Blackness is Burning; she is a co-editor of the collections Gaming Representation and Theorizing Tyler Perry; and she is a Series Editor of Power Play: Games, Politics, Culture (Duke University Press). Along with Samantha Blackmon, she is a co-founder of the public humanities project The Black Games Archive. Since 2016 Russworm has served as the founder and director of the Radical Play Lab, a community-based game design and research lab.