September 8: Ashley Alicea

September 15: Yinghua Yang

September 22: Kat Woolley

September 29: Rosamund Williams

October 6: Ben Radcliffe

October 13: James Stone

October 20: Raphael Azcueta

October 27: Krystel Theuvenin

In this weeks session of Unity Creators Live we will talk with Ashley Alicea.  Ashley is a Senior Developer Advocate for Games at Unity. She spends her days creating technical talks and demos to empower Unity creators with the skills they need to make games and interactive media. You’ll find her at conferences, game jams, and hackathons digging deep into new Unity features and getting excited about the community’s latest creations. Her past roles at Global Game Jam, IndieCade, and Games For Change have made her a passionate advocate of democratizing game development – a mission she proudly continues at Unity. 



Register for her live interview here now!

Live Session: September 3, 2021

Join us September 15th, 2021 to hear about the world of XR design from Yinghua Yang from Unity's Spatial Design Team  

September 15, 2021: Yinghua Yang

Rosamund Williams is a Sr. Instructional Designer at Unity Technologies. On top of building a lot of the amazing courses for learn she also helps drive the conversation at Unity around accessibility. 

 to learn about Instructional Design and Accessibility in gaming. 

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Raphael Azcueta is a Unity jack of all trades. He started making pixel art before teaching himself Unity3D, building a few indie games, setting up indie game showcases, and spending the last summer teaching Unity to teenagers in the Milwaukee area. He is currently either sharpening his coding skills back in school at UW Milwaukee or grinding his adventuring party in Wizardry.

Live Session: October 20, 2021

The games industry is full of opportunity for Unity creators. This live series will give you insight into the day-to-day functions of a variety of professionals all working with or adjacent to Unity.  Catch up with what's happened on past live series' to learn about careers, projects and your questions answered 


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With expertise in Unity as a PC & console game developer and decades of business experience, James joined Unity Technologies in 2018 and is currently the Senior Technical Product Manager for Consoles R&D. James provides a clear objective understanding of how Unity is used in console development and drives positive change and innovation within the product.

After a successful 22 year career in senior technical leadership within the IT industry, James followed a lifelong dream of becoming a game developer. Self taught, James founded NerdRage Studios in 2016, with a focus on making retro inspired games for PC and Consoles. James solo created Jump Gunners in 2017 and is now working with a small team on the critically acclaimed Xenosis: Alien Infection, the Xbox showcased & Fig funded retro sci fi horror, which Rock Paper Shotgun awarded top 10 game of EGX 2019.

James is a diversity and inclusion champion & public speaker, and is devoted to helping other black game developers and marginalised groups reach their potential. James is the community lead for the black ERG at Unity, and is working to create an industry wide program that aims to address the underrepresentation of black people in the games industry.

James is also a multi award winning documentary photographer who has spent time living with remote tribes in Africa, and was a National Geographic finalist for Photographer of the year 3 times!

October 13: James Stone

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