Community / Events

The game development industry is full of incredible gatherings and communities that I’ve been very fortunate to be a part of. I would initially partake in them as an indie game developer myself, but I couldn’t resist joining their event teams to help support the magic, longevity, and growth of these communities.

As Lead Coordinator for Unity’s Developer Advocacy team, I managed the execution/support of hundreds of community events across North, Central, and South America. My duties included full event logistics end-to-end: venue sourcing, budgets, vendors, marketing, social media, speakers, sponsors, and more. We wanted to help local game communities flourish and meet our users wherever they were — be it conferences, trade shows, meetups, hackathons, and more.

As part of this work, I created and ran the Unity Developer Day conference series — growing it from a small regional program into a touring international series spanning the USA, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Brasil, and Argentina. Across all Unity advocacy events, my data-informed approach to event planning grew the team's overall reach by 270%, hitting 50,000 attendees across 2.5 years.

Before Unity, I served as Lead Producer for IndieCade East 2014 in New York City and as Community Manager for IndieCade 2015 in Los Angeles. I also worked as Community Manager for Half the Sky: The Game, a social impact Facebook game produced by Games For Change to raise global awareness around women's issues.

I still enjoy participating in Global Game Jam every year! I've been a jammer since 2010, organized the first-ever GGJ event in my homeland of Puerto Rico in 2014, and have served on the GGJ Executive Committee twice in 2015 and 2016 — supporting the organization and direction of the event at a global level.

Coverage

USC Annenberg Media - El Nuevo Día - East Side Games - Indie Bonus Stage - Unity - Connected Learning Alliance - Newsday - Remeshed - Ithaca Times - The Ithacan