BelleChere is a self-taught professional costume designer who has been passionately creating and modeling the costumes of her favorite pop culture ...
Derek an experienced actor/stunt performer and precision/stunt driver for film and television. He owns Norcal Movie Cars which rents and provides ...
Despite his lifelong obsession with video games, Angelo Alcid somehow managed to put down his controller long enough to become a licensed Californi...
Mary Alexander is a librarian, archivist and editor from San Jose. She is an active member of the Bay Area steampunk community and loves local hist...
Ed Annunziata has been a leader in the gaming industry for over 20 years, focused on video, computer, mobile and education games for children of al...
Johnna Joy Ashton is a local director, actor, costumer and producer. She started an indie film company with her now husband, which recently release...
Kane Ashton is a local writer, director, actor, editor, and podcaster. He started an indie film company Ampersand Film Studios with his now wife Jo...
Sean Patrick Astin is an American actor, director, voice artist, and producer best known for his film roles as Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Ri...
Mark Badger drew assorted superhero comics from Batman: Jazz and Run Riddler Run to Spiderman Online for AOL and Marvel, among others during the 80...
Madeline channels her nerdy background and involvement with fandom into her career in sports marketing for the NBA and Tough Mudder. Through her ow...
Roque is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning director with strong artistic vision. His focus on compelling art direction and story helps to bring t...
Graduate from SUPINFOCOM in 2004, Franc BALSON begins his career at CUBE CREATIVE as a graphic designer. In 3 years, he was also 3D supervisor and ...
When she was five years old, Trystan loved to dress in tights and a trench coat to play Mrs. Peel from The Avengers. She’s been wearing funny cloth...
As a nerd, geek, übergeek, LaQuisha has always loved movies, cartoons, comics, and anime. She believes in the power of geekdom and within the clas...
Riya Behl is a senior at Pioneer High School. She was first introduced to the wonderful world of comics by her sophomore year English teacher. The ...
Beth Bemis is an actor and writer and avid fan of sci fi, fantasy, and all things Whedon in movies, TV, novels and graphic novels. She's also an a...
Gregory Berkin is a serial entrepreneur, software programmer and senior technology evangelist who founded the first educational software company fo...
Kerry Bishé is a theatre, film and television actor. She can be seen in “Argo,” directed by Ben Affleck. She also appears in movies written and d...
Bret Blevins is an American comic book artist and Emmy-award winning animation storyboard artist. He is known for his work with Marvel's New Mutant...
Timothy Blevins is Bret’s son and has collaborated with his father on a number of projects over the years. He has worked primarily in the music ind...
David Wayne Boop was born July 23, 1968 in Bridgeport, CT. He was adopted adopted by Mahlon and Peggy Boop, non-denominational Christian ministe...
Bonnie Burton is the bestselling author of “The Star Wars Craft Book” (Random House), “Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How W...
Mary Anne Butler is the Editor-in-Chief for Aggressive Comix, contributor to Ace Of Geeks, and founding member of Harkonnen Knife Fight. Lifelong g...
John has been entered the cosplay world only recently but has already been featured by multiple media sources including MTV, IO9, NBC news etc. An ...
Christopher Cantwell was born in Chicago, but in the early ’80s his father moved the family to Dallas in order to pursue career opportunities in th...
Matthew brings over 20 years of experience in fencing, staged combat and martial arts to Silicon Valley Comic Con (Fencing, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Juji...
Jennifer L. Carson is an editor of 35 years who has worked with such publishers as Simon and Schuster, John Wiley & Sons, and Jossey-Bass. She has ...
Chris Castagnetto, aka DJ Helsing, has been a professional in the video game and board game industry for over 10 years working at top gaming compan...
Eduardo Castrillo is a writer, film director and co-founder of Uncia Films. After graduating from film school in 2014, Eduardo decided to start his...
Chris creates the stunning graphic artwork surrounding Sunborn Rising. Chris is a seasoned veteran in the video game and art industries. He’s held ...
Tipatat Chennavasin is an Investor in VR with the Venture Reality Fund. He has experience creating both interactive VR/AR and 360 video. He became ...
Alysa has been a professional political and community organizer for almost a decade, and is currently graduate student in Public Policy at Mills Co...
For over 20 years, Steve has been making high impact television. During his career he has worked in every aspect of production, climbing his way up...
Currently Sr. Principal Scientist in the Digital Imaging group at Adobe, Stefano Corazza leads a team that is integrating machine learning and 3D t...
Joe Costello has spent a career in animation for television and gaming and knows a little too much about comics.
Julie Ann Crommett joined Google in December 2013 and is currently the Program Manager, CS Education in Media, working to shift perceptions of comp...
Mackenzie Davis was born and raised in Vancouver, BC before attending McGill University in Montreal and then the Neighborhood Playhouse in New Yor...
Walter de Brouwer is the founder and CEO of Scanadu, a NASA Ames Research-based company with the mission of putting the diagnostic power of a hospi...
Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux is co-founder of Escape Dynamics, a technology company which has greatly advanced the state of the art in beamed energy...
Ariana de Souza is a senior at Pioneer High School. Although her childhood has been filled with books and storytelling, she wasn’t exposed to comic...
Meg DeAngelis is a bright young YouTuber and actress who encourages her viewers to be confident in themselves, covering all things "girl empowering...
Just a monster who loves movies, comics, ladies, music, and funny things.
Kelly Delcambre is a master cosplayer and has created some incredible costumes ranging from Optimus Prime to the Creeper. He currently works for Wo...
Texan. Comics writer, comics editor, comics artist, animation writer, storyboard artist, designer & 2011 Shel Dorf Editor-Of-The-Year.
Bree Despain is the author of the Dark Divine trilogy and the upcoming Into The Dark trilogy. She has always loved writing because she has always l...
Matthew Diamond has been an uber-fan all his life, and a comic book reader since age seven. He’s watched countless cartoons, films, and adaptation...
A young nerd ahead of his time, Alexander Diep now extends his mighty influence at a local high school where he bemoans the passage of time and hig...
Jim is a full-time SF&F writer, scientist (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering), laser geek, and former running-dog-lackey for the bourgeois capitalist es...
NEO EDMUND (WGA-W) HAS WORKED IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY AS A SCREENWRITER, STORY DEVELOPMENT EXEC, & A FILM / TV PRODUCER SCREENWRITING CRED...
Blair Erickson is a writer, director and creator whose work spans film, television, video games, interactive virtual worlds and online video experi...
Mallory enjoys long distance running, music and pizza. She is a Portland native as demonstrated by her hippie-ish, grunge-loving hair. Mallory owes...
CEO and cofounder of Baobab Studios, the leading VR animation studio. She co-founded Baobab with Eric Darnell, who directed and wrote Madagascar a...
Josh directed and shot the sci-fi feature film Senn and has recently written a novella called ableYoung. He is the editor and cinematographer of th...
"Nathan Fillion is a Canadian actor and voice actor best known for his role as Richard Castle on the ABC series Castle, as well as his earlier port...
Zack Finfrock moved to Los Angeles as a freelance artist and filmmaker in 2008, creating successfully crowdfunded webseries like "Fallout: Nuka Bre...
Brian is a trademark, copyright, and advertising associate at Cooley in Silicon Valley and a Fellow of the Internet Law & Policy Foundry. Previousl...
Steve Frankel was born at an early age. He’s been a fan forever -- since the early days of Spider-Man and Iron Man, and he read Lord of the Rings t...
Best known as the author of How Game of Thrones Will End, Joss Whedon’s Names, Shadowhunters & Myths, and Adoring Outlander.
Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of many books on pop culture, including Doctor Who – The What, Where, and How; We're Home: Fandom, Fun, and ...
Anthropologist interested in cultural themes of science fiction and comics. I teach at Western Nevada College and have offered themed classes in Sc...
M Todd Gallowglas is a professional storyteller (like on a stage with a show in front of real people) and the author of the Tears of Rage, Hallowee...
"Shaenon K. Garrity has been making webcomics for almost two decades. She is best known as the creator of two long-running series: ""Skin Horse"" a...
Andrew E.C. Gaska is an author, digital artist, producer and art director. A franchise consultant for Twentieth Century Fox, he has also served as ...
An architect by day, Geoffrey Gay has spent his evenings and weekends pulling the levers at Midwick Armory, a small scale costume shop based out of...
David Gerrold is the author of over 50 books, hundreds of articles and columns, and over a dozen television episodes. He is a classic sci-fi writer...
Dane Glasgow is a serial entrepreneur and senior technology executive who has built a number of successful businesses across entertainment, communi...
Jacqueline Goehner is a long time cosplayer highly recognized for her Witchblade and Princess Zelda costumes. She has been cosplaying since 2005,...
A life-long resident of San Jose, Jason Goldman-Hall spent 5 years in journalism after college before transitioning into full-time English teaching...
Jason first delved into sketch comedy with a video called “Sean Connery’s 7 Tips For Dating For Fools” and has been hooked on it ever since. Puttin...
Michael L. Grayson was born in January, 1988 in Oakland, CA. Acting first piqued his interest at age 6, seeing his older sister, Michelle Grayson, ...
Kevin R. Grazier, Ph.D. served as the Science Advisor for several television series and movies, including SyFy Channel series "Defiance," the TNT s...
Valerie Greene writers under the pen name Valerie Complex. She is a freelance writer, and professional nerd. She is passionate about diversity acro...
Aside from creating the webcomic “No Stereotypes”, Amber Greenlee has also been a Disney princess, puppeteer, stand-up comedian, fine-art painter, ...
Philip-Jon Haarsma, more commonly known as PJ Haarsma, is a Canadian born science fiction author best known for his creation of the Rings of Orbis ...
Author L.J. Hachmeister writes and fights. After winning the WEKAF world championship in double-stick fighting and achieving a second black belt in...
Freelance filmmaker and photographer. Has the most credits in films and TV, as an armorer or costumer since he is a technical consultant on milita...
Lisa Hansell is Co-Producer and Makeup Supervisor on the award-winning web series, Star Trek Continues. She has been a professional makeup artist i...
Miriam has been sewing and costuming for 15 years and has made over 200 costumes. She likes touching every single fabric in the store every single ...
Kishore Hari is a science educator with more than a decade's experience producing live science events. He's the director of the Bay Area Science Fe...
Despite lacking a charming southern accent, Stacey does not lack the values of hard work and southern hospitality. Stacey was the undefeated swimmi...
Andrew Hessel is a catalyst in biological technologies, helping industry, academics, and authorities better understand the changes happening in lif...
Anders Scot Hudson has a long history as a technical director and visual effects artist. His work can be seen is several television and movie franc...
Alx James is one of the most recognizable faces from Vine, boasting over 8 million followers and over 2.5 billion loops on the platform. His quick ...
Terry D. Johnson has a master's degree in chemical engineering from MIT and is currently an Associate Teaching Professor of bioengineering at UC Be...
Kaela M Joseph, PhD: Kaela is a clinical psychology fellow who uses her love of sci-fi and horror fandoms to inform her clinical practice, resear...
David Kahn is Vice President of Product at JauntVR, which allows people to travel to virtual worlds. He previously held product leadership roles at...
Julie is a software engineer, writer (for thenerdsofcolor.org), and mom. Her passions include diversity in tech, fuzzy animals, social justice, Doc...
Shannon Kealey is an accomplished musician, actor and singer/songwriter, and in her spare time she dabbles in science librarianship. She loves all ...
Barbara Randall Kesel is a writer and editor of comic books; her bibliography includes work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Crossgen, Image Comics an...
Jenny Kim is a Special Education Teacher at Pioneer High School in San Jose, CA. Prior to her work in education, she also worked in the non-profit,...
MICHAEL KLASTORIN has served as a production publicist on over 50 feature films, with credits including such diverse fare as Swamp Thing, Witness, ...
Jonathan Knowles serves as Autodesk's Explorer in residence. With a charter of exploring what’s next for Autodesk with a view into the 10 to 100 ye...
Kyle Kurpinski holds a joint PhD in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley/UCSF, and spends most of his time helping new technologies reach the market. He...
I have participated in many local conventions as a speaker and moderator over the last 20 years. I was one of the writers for ST:TNG 'A Matter of H...
Anthony Larice is an actor and writer who has been working in the indie film world avidly, and is currently developing his web series' Help! I'm Al...
A Marine and long time Cave Girl, a regular at bay area comic conventions.
Cary is an artist and prop maker, and got got into costuming about 3 years ago. His first costume was the Halo ODST, "Mickey". After becoming a par...
Jonathan Lemon is the creator of the strip “Rabbits against Magic”, which first appeared at gocomics.com and is now distributed by Universal Press ...
At 6'5, Benjamin Long is an actor that makes himself well known on screen as well as on set. Acting in film since a young child, appearing in films...
DESCIPLE is a filmmaker from Oakland, CA specialized in the Action / Adventure / Fantasy categories. His indie movies have been featured in several...
JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning suspense author, editor, comic book writer, magazine featu...
Having never broken a bone as the second oldest of six kids, Natalie is officially invincible. Natalie came to Brigham Young University–where she s...
Christy Marx has had an eclectic career as a transmedia writer, TV and animation series developer, comics writer, game designer and narrative desig...
May has been a special effects expert in the motion picture industry for more than 25 years, working on 30+ Hollywood films, including two Academy ...
Peyton Maynard-Koran has worked on every aspect of Network Architecture, and has been a leader in new forms of access and large scale transport tec...
He’s made ghosts appear on the screens of borrowed cell phones. He can shove his hand through a living human’s chest, seemingly breaking the skin y...
Brian lives in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, two dogs, a cat, and between 6,000 and 60,000 honey bees (depending on the time of year). He began...
Harry McCracken is the technology editor for Fast Company, based in San Francisco. In past lives, he was editor at large for Time magazine, founder...
Matt’s sketch comedy career began when he joined Brigham Young University’s Divine Comedy. It was there that he befriended Studio C cast members Ja...
A member of Estrogen Force 3 and the GenderBent Justice League, Roxanna Meta has been cosplaying since 2007 and her work has been featured on Marve...
In past lives, Stacy Meyn was a library clerk, A/V tech, music store manager, and DJ/producer. She webmavened during the dot.com boom (and bust), a...
Vic has been acting for stage and screen since he was 8 years old. But his anime career started about fifteen years ago as Vega in Streetfighter II...
Ian comes from a background in biomechanical sciences with design and fabrication or prosthetic and orthotic devices. Four years ago he realized th...
The chief architect of UI Evolution (http://www.uievolution.com). The chief architect of Microsoft Windows 95 and 98, IE 3/4. http://www.geekwire.c...
Mornings on KFOG/ travel channel goon/ Creepy Kofy Movie Time/ HGTV/ old skool pouser/ bad speller/ lame ass.
Nichelle Nichols began her professional singing and dancing career in her home town, Chicago, at the tender age of 14. As a teenager she was disco...
DANIEL NOAH (Writer/Producer) is a screenwriter, director and producer who has worked on a diverse array of film, television and theater projects s...
Comics/pop culture historian, Love on the Racks, Ball Tales Michelle Nolan has been a journalist and comics/pop cultural historian for nearly 50 y...
As an amateur fighter Jose won multiple Championship belts including a world title. He turned pro after earning a bronze medal at Wushu World Games...
As a founding member of Reel FX, Peil has participated in the studio’s significant growth over the past 22 years which now employs 315 team members...
Valerie Perez is known as comic book heroine Paula Peril in the official film series, as well as Wonder Woman for various YouTube channels includin...
Alec Peters is an actor and producer, known for Prelude to Axanar (2014), Axanar (2016) and Loadout: Going in Hot (2014).
David began work on his first language in 2000 and has been creating languages ever since. He’s worked as a language creator on HBO’s Game of Thron...
Tilde is an HR wench turned software engineer at Pinterest, where she's currently on the partners team building analytics tools for businesses on t...
During her nearly nine years of teaching biology at San Jose State University, she has made innovation in science education and communication a pri...
John Paul is a working actor, model, and cosplay enthusiast that has had a passion for making his own costumes since way back in the 1st grade. Fue...
"Teri started cosplaying about 5 years ago at the cajoling of a close friend that had recently come upon the hobby. After over 35 years of doing hi...
Sarah Pugliaresi spends her days working as a Quality Engineer for a San Jose based wellness startup. By night, she is a fearless costume designer ...
Daniel W. Rasmus, is the Founder and Principal Analyst at Serious Insights. Rasmus uses scenarios to analyze uncertainties in society, technology, ...
Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards is a space entrepreneur and futurist. He is a Co-Founder of the International Space University, Singularity University, S...
Award-winning herstorian and writer Trina Robbins has been writing books, comics, and graphic novels for over forty years. Her 2009 book, The Brink...
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr., is the guardian of the Roddenberry legacy and champions its timeless and universal ideals to new generations throug...
A Virginia native, Christopher C. Rogers began his career with the Atlantic Media Company (publisher of The Atlantic and National Journal) in Washi...
Barbara Roth is a paramedic, registered Surgical Nurse, ER Nurse, and Director of the Aryana Health Care Foundation. She recently started cosplayin...
Mark grew up in the great plains of the Midwest where he developed his love for music, science fiction, fantasy, theater, cinema, games and basical...
Nor Sanavongsay is an award-winning Lao American illustrator and writer in the San Francisco Bay area and the founder of Sahtu Press. He has been a...
Martin Schubert creates Leap Motion-enabled VR experiences (Weightless, Geometric) that show the magic of using your hands to naturally and intuiti...
Steven L. Sears (Steve) was born the younger of two sons. His parents, Richard and Marian Sears, traveled frequently as Richard was a career soldie...
Kasey Shafsky is a producer, shooter, editor, and director. He is the UPM and a Co-Producer for the acclaimed web-series Star Trek Continues. A gra...
Apurva Shah joined Capital One in spring 2016 to bring over two decades of animation, visual effects, games and computer graphics experiences with ...
Liam Sharp made his debut in the late 1980s drawing Judge Dredd for 2000ad. He later designed and drew Marvel UK’s best-selling title ever, Death’...
Jason Shiga is a cartoonist who incorporates puzzles, mysteries and unconventional narrative techniques into his work, such as in his groundbreakin...
Jared Shores is a producer and director, known for Studio C (2012), Turning Point (2011) and The Story Trek (2011).
Legendary artist and writer Bill Sienkiewicz is one of the greatest innovators in the history of sequential art. He has won every major comics awa...
Bruce Simon worked at Marvelmania in the late sixties where he met ack Kirby and became one of the legendary kids who hung out with Jack, took him ...
Dave M. Strom is a technical writer, comic book geek, and budding novelist and short story writer. His “The Terror of the Twisted Tonguester” short...
Kurt Stumbaugh is an indie filmmaker, camera operator, and technical consultant in the fields of Videography and Computer graphics. He worked at A...
Renie’s experience has spanned the software and publishing industries. She was previously a Vice President for a unit of Thomson Publishing, A Cons...
Parisa Tabriz has worked on computer security for over a decade and as the "Security Princess" of Google for the last 8+ years. She started as a "h...
Shawn is a writer, storyteller, pop culture scholar, a college lecturer, and an alternative high school director. His areas of interest include: ra...
Strephon Taylor is a producer and editor, known for Jack Pierce, the Maker of Monsters (2015), Uncle Forry's Ackermansions (2014) and Art Gods (201...
If you are a tabletop gamer, you have probably seen some some of Jason Thompson’s large and intricately-detailed, official walkthrough-maps of clas...
Chantal Trazo is a senior at Pioneer High School. She developed an interest in comics after her friends encouraged her to join their school's Comic...
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Alan Wray Tudyk is an American actor and voice artist known for his roles as Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the space western television series “Firefly...
Brittany and Brianna, are national bestselling, multiple award-winning science fiction novelists, screenplay writers and producers. Their novels in...
Peter J. Wacks is a bestselling cross-genre writer and the managing editor WordFire Press. He has worked across the creative fields in gaming, tele...
Ariel Waldman makes “massively multiplayer science”, instigating unusual collaborations that spark clever creations for science and space explorati...
Raised on a cattle ranch on the Central Coast of California, JOSH C. WALLER (Director/Producer) was simultaneously weaned on theatre, character-dri...
Joe Walser has decades of film production experience under his belt. In that time, he worked his way up the ranks of the Art Department to Producti...
Britton is the director of the upcoming feature documentary 'Conlanging.' He also consulted on the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness. In 2014 he co...
Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has written for outlets...
Marcus married into cosplay. While he's not an expert costumer, he is quite knowledgeable on building impossible 3D structures from multiple sessio...
ANDY WEIR was first hired as a programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen and has been working as a software engineer ever since. He is al...
Dan Wells was born in 1977. His parents were avid readers and SF/Fantasy fans, and when he was six years old his dad read him The Hobbit. He has be...
Robison Wells is the author of Blackout, Deadzone, Variant, Feedback, Dark Energy, and Airships of Camelot. Variant was a Publishers Weekly Best Bo...
Ryan Wells, from Portland OR, professional cosplayer and prop builder as well as a featured talent aboard cosplay cruises and a builder for the Mag...
Chuck Whelon is the creator of the long-running humorous fantasy webcomic, “Pewfell", and the host of the “Masters of Webcomics” Podcast. Launched ...
Tad Williams is a former singer, shoe-seller, radio show host, and inventor of interactive SF TV turned New York Times and international bestsellin...
Writer, Producer, Actor, William Wisher Jr. has become a respected name within the Hollywood community. In 1984, William jumped into the public eye...
Ben Wolstenholme’s passion for storytelling has led him to build two creative businesses; Moving Brands and Madefire. In 1998 Ben co-founded Mov...
Alice is a researcher and disability advocate. She's the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, a community partner with StoryCorps collecti...
While contributing to thenerdsofcolor.org, Nelson is also the creator of AArisings, an online entertainment resource about Asian Americans and Paci...
Em Woods has been in several productions with Ampersand Film Studios, including the feature film John Hughes is a Lying Bastard, and the femme assa...
Bryan Thao Worra is a Lao American writer who hold over 20 awards for his writing and arts leadership including an NEA Fellowship in Literature. He...
A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades, Steve Wozniak helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s f...
Sewing, quilting, and costuming geek. Secret identity: bay area computer engineer.
Danielle Yuan has been in the prop-making community since 2009 when she was brought into the 405th Infantry during its inception, and has since ser...