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Kahlief Adams

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Kahlief was born and raised in the Bronx, New York and has spent over a decade helping people use technology to solve their problems. As an avid technophile and lover of all things video games he set his career path toward a life of game-making until he found out his arch nemesis, "Math," had other plans in store. So instead of making the next Tetris he found himself writing and talking about games on his website TheSpawnPointBlog.com and his podcast spotlighting people of color in the gaming industry Spawn On Me. When he's not playing or writing he's ingesting mass quantities of cured meats and stinky cheeses.
Portland, OR June 27, 2015
Podcasting While Black Saved My Sanity, It Can Save Yours Too

Tech entertainment spaces have been predominantly white for as long as we can remember. Videogame websites, tech shows and podcasts have been the home of homogenous voices and skin tones for the past twenty years. In this talk I want to share how we decided to disrupt things in the gaming sphere by spotlighting the work of people of color in the industry. Using our voices not only to talk about what we love but to also use it make a difference through our social justice platform called #Spawn4Good. Being unapologetically Black has never felt better.