Angela Roseboro is the new chief diversity officer at Riot Games.
Angela Roseboro is the new chief diversity officer at Riot Games.
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Riot Games hires chief diversity officer in wake of sexism scandal

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Angela Roseboro is taking on a big task as the chief diversity officer at Riot Games. She joins Riot from Dropbox and comes in the aftermath of a scandal that revealed a sexist culture at the League of Legends game publisher and esports company.

Riot Game was hit with the allegations as Kotaku published an investigative story with testimony from current and former Riot employees who said the sexism was ingrained among the executives. In the aftermath, Riot admitted that it made mistakes, made some changes in its staffing, and was also hit with a gender discrimination lawsuit.

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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.