Tabletop Gaymers is led by a Board of Directors who are responsible for long-term planning and the future of the organization and other talented officers who are responsible for specific areas of our operation. We are always looking for additional skills and people who want to make a difference. If you have an interest in joining our team, please contact us.

Executive Officers

Justin Nauman

Justin Nauman, President & Initiatives Director

Areas: Safe Space, Gayme Night
[email protected]
Ames Iowa

Justin (he/him) works for Iowa State University in the Office of Admissions as a web developer. He brings his experience from past leadership roles in several organizations to the board. Always an avid video gamer, Justin was introduced to tabletop games in college where he first fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons and Euro-style strategy games.

Edwin Morales

Edwin Morales, Vice President & Conventions Director

Areas: Conventions, PAX Unplugged Lead
[email protected]
New York City New York

Edwin (he/him) works at Apple in the retail space. He is originally from Puerto Rico and has been playing tabletop games since high school, most notably Vampire the Masquerade and Dungeons and Dragons. He recently launched the brand GeekHiveLabs with an enamel pin collection and has the goal to continue to expand into the tabletop gaming arena. Edwin loves to travel, both nationally to gaming conventions and internationally to learn about cultures.

Jessiye Davis

Jessiye Davis, Secretary & Communications Director

Areas: Newsletter, Website, Social Media, Online Communities, Discord, Twitch,
[email protected]
Milwaukee Wisconsin

Jessiye (she/her) works as a grant writer and DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) specialist in the nonprofit world. Jessiye first fell in love with board games after playing her first chutes and ladders game at the age of three. Her love for board games has evolved into a collection of board games that is now in need of a fourth floor-to-ceiling shelf. Jessiye started playing Dungeons and Dragons in her mid thirties and now finds herself having the most fun GMing and playing all kinds of TTRPGs (Tabletop Role Playing Games). Jessiye loves to be colorful and you will often find her wearing something including the entire rainbow. When she is playing or streaming games she loves to do collaborative things with the audience and other players.

Ronald Melencio

Ronald Melencio, Treasurer & Finance Director

Areas: Safe Space Initiative for Retailers Coordinator
[email protected]
San Francisco Bay Area California

Ronald (he/him) works as a Product Manager in artificial intelligence software for a medical device company. Playing video and board games at a young age, Ronald always wanted to make games. With the passion to become a published board game designer, Ronald jumped into the board game industry in 2018. Socializing and sharing an experience in tabletop is what drives Ronald to play, create, and teach games with others.

Directors

Amanda Rivera

Amanda Rivera, Brand & Marketing Director

Area: Brand and Marketing
[email protected]
New York City New York

Amanda (she/her) is a creative and marketing director with experience in a number of industries. She spends a majority of her free time playing and learning tabletop games, being creative for a cause, and finding the best restaurants. She is a longtime attendee of annual conventions including NYCC and PAX Unplugged.

Danielle Reynolds

Danielle Reynolds, Art & Design Director

Areas: Design and Art
[email protected]
Springfield Massachusetts

Danielle (she/her) is a game designer and developer with experience in a number of industries. She is the host of the “Game Design Unboxed: Inspiration to Publication” podcast hosted by the Know Direction Network. She is a board member of Unpub as well as their graphic designer and an admin for the Board Game Broads Facebook page. She enjoys rock climbing, hiking, traveling and spending time with friends in her free time.

Jeff Sorensen

Jeff Sorensen, Fundraising Director

Areas: Fundraising, Donor Rewards, Procurement, Gen Con Asst.
[email protected]
Ames Iowa

Jeff (he/him) works for Iowa State University as the manager of IT Web Development Services. He’s been addicted to playing tabletop games since he was a teenager in the 80’s. His first experience was playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons (1E) with an older cousin who brought the game back with him from college. His first convention was Gen Con in 2005.

Unai Miguel Andres

Unai Miguel Andres, Engagement Director

Areas: Engagement, Volunteers, Gen Con Lead
[email protected]
Indianapolis Indiana

Unai (he/they) works as a Data Analyst for the Indiana University School of Medicine. He is originally from Spain, but has been living in Indianapolis since late 2017, which led them to attend his first Gen Con in 2018. He is a lifelong board gamer, remembering playing tile games since being 5, euro-style games and RPGs since age 10, and their favorite, social deduction games, since age 16. He is always up for playing in or leading social deduction games sessions.

Xtina Stiso

Xtina Stiso, Outreach Director

Area: Outreach, Newsletter, Communications
[email protected]
Bloomington Indiana

Xtina (she/they) is currently a Ph.D. student in the Learning Sciences program at Indiana University, Bloomington where they study game-based learning and classroom equity. A lifelong board gamer, her love of RPGs began with a game of Pathfinder in college. Their first convention was San Diego Comic Con.

Zach Lones

Zach Lones, Logistics Director

Area: Logistics, Origins Lead
[email protected]
Seattle Washington

Zach (he/they) works at Microsoft as a software engineer. He started playing Dungeons and Dragons in high school and in college was introduced to more tabletop games. Their first convention was Gen Con 2012 and over past few years has traveled to more across the country.

Officers

Dan Duran

Dan Duran

Areas: PAX East
[email protected]
Boston Massachusetts

Dan (he/him) works in regulatory compliance for the pharmaceutical industry. His life was forever changed when Santa brought him The Legend of Zelda and a Nintendo Entertainment System. he thought gaming just couldn’t get any better….until he was introduced to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition. An avid roleplaying gaymer from Puerto Rico, Dan enjoys teaching others how to play rpgs and board games alike. Dan’s first convention was Gen Con in 2014 and he can usually be spotted at several conventions throughout the year, including Origins and the various PAX cons.

Jaclyn Lewis

Jaclyn Lewis

Areas: Social Media, Online Communities Asst.
[email protected]
Kalamazoo Michigan

Jaclyn (they/she) runs TTRPG games for queer youth: encouraging creativity and self-expression, teaching boundaries and consent, and wrangling the (inevitable) chaos. She also runs two nerdy shops: one at Rem Alternis, where she streams on occasion, and one at Janatee Craftily, where she makes custom plushies, nerdy accessories, and LGBTQ+ pride gear out of yarn, art film, and lots of love. They enjoy crafting stories, gifts, and community, and can often be found at conventions of all sorts in the Midwest.

Josh Yoder

Josh Yoder

Areas: Volunteers
[email protected]
Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Josh (he/him) is an educator from Philadelphia, PA who specializes in WWII History and Historical Archaeology. In his off time, he serves as Vice President of the NYC Ghostbusters cosplay group and is an avid dancer of Kathak, Bhangra and Square Dance with the International Association of Gay Square Dance Clubs. His favorite games include Robinson Crusoe (what got him hooked), Burgle Brothers, and A Study in Emerald. He is an avid traveler and spends a lot of his time between Ottawa, Toronto, New York and his home in Philadelphia where he lives with his husband Gene.

Kade Johanning

Kade Johanning

Areas: Technology Asst., Volunteers Asst.
[email protected]
Kalamazoo Michigan

Hello! My name is Kade Johanning (he/they) and I’m so excited to be a part of TTG! I come with a varied background of experiences and I’m thrilled to be helping with the work we’re doing! I originally hail from a small town in central Wisconsin but moved to Michigan to be closer to the important people in my life. I spend most of my free time playing/thinking about D&D 5e, video games with friends, or spoiling my cats Zorro and Pepper Jack.

Rory McConnell

Rory McConnell

Areas: Corporate Partnerships,
[email protected]
San Diego California

Rory (she/her) learned two very important lessons at an early age: The power of self-discovery through roleplaying, and that game stores in the 90s and 00s weren’t the most supportive places for a young queer child. Undeterred, she decided that the best way to find new gamers would be to make them and set out on what has become a lifelong mission of community development through shared play. She can be found behind a Chessex booth at Gen Con, San Diego Comic Con, and Dragon Con, and her three great passions in life are learning games, teaching games, and giant robots.