Empower Change is a nonprofit to help people deal with grief.
Empower Change is a nonprofit to help people deal with grief.
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Empower Change launches nonprofit for grieving families

Empower Change is launching as a new tech-enabled nonprofit aimed at helping grieving families. It’s a startup that was born out of tragedy.

Roderick Alemania, founder of Empower Change, has been thinking about it for a long time, as he lost his father and then five years later lost his mother as a young adult. Now he has more than 30 years of experience at Silicon Valley companies, and he has founded the nonprofit on principles of innovation.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.