Riot Games is committing $2 million to South Los Angeles education.
Riot Games is committing $2 million to South Los Angeles education.
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Riot Games commits $2M to South Los Angeles educational effort

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Aiming to narrow the digital divide, Riot Games is committing over $2 million to SoLa Impact’s I Can Foundation.

The contribution from Los Angeles-based Riot Games, the publisher of League of Legends, will help fund the local education effort and assist with the buildout and operation of SoLa’s Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, which will provide free technology education to the community of South Los Angeles.

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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.