Yiyi Zhang

Yiyi (she, her, pronounced ee-ee) is a community organizer, game developer, artist, and human rights lawyer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently the PR + Community Manager at Heart Machine, an LA-based game studio best known for Hyper Light Drifter, Solar Ash, and upcoming Hyper Light Breaker and Possessor(s). She is also on the Board of Directors of GUMBO Collective (NYC’s largest collective of indie game developers) and is the Vice President of Arcade Commons (a non-profit building indie arcade cabinets). She is also an advisor on the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Digital Games Industry Council and founded Women in Games NYC, a professional networking meetup group for women/femme people in the industry. In her free time, she is a graphic designer for Qweerty Gamers (an LGBTQIA+ games non-profit), and moonlights as an attorney helping asylum seekers and refugees gain safety and status in the United States.