Speakers
Ty Underwood, Co-founder and Worker-Owner, Comradery.co
Ty Underwood is a Seattle-based game developer, labor organizer, and educator as well as the co-founder of Comradery.co. Over the last decade, Ty has worked as a UX artist and designer on games in the education space, an industrial designer and a software UX designer. Since 2020, Ty has taught game design and development at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. In 2024, Ty became the department chair and faculty union co-president of AFT Local 3533. Over the past 4 years, Ty has worked with other designers and activists on Comradery.co, a cooperatively owned and operated funding and distribution platform for cooperatives, artists, and organizers.