Crystal Yang
Student in Texas
Crystal Yang is an advocate for accessibility in gaming. She is the founder and CEO of Audemy Games, a gaming platform that uses AI-powered audio games + accessible gaming toolkits to reach over 200,000 blind and visually impaired people across 136 countries. She has created 50+ audio games used by 1 in 5 blind students in the U.S., and has created 100 accessibility toolkits to help blind and visually impaired gamers access top titles like Call of Duty, Minecraft, Valorant, Roblox etc.
Her organization is backed by $200,000+ in grants from Intel, Google, Hershey’s, The Taco Bell Foundation, etc, and she works with a team of over 60 developers, designers, and volunteers.
Crystal’s work has been featured on Fox News, NPR, Intel News, PBS, The CW, Yahoo News, and more. She has been recognized by Governor Greg Abbott and President George W. Bush, and is the winner of the 2024 Intel Global AI Festival and Amazon Breaking Barriers Challange.
Crystal has published three first-author papers at international research conferences ACM CHI and ICMI on accessible AI and presented them in Paris, Costa Rica, and Japan.
She is also the executive director of alGIRLithm, the largest global programming contest for high school girls, and co-founder of KatyYouthHacks, a 1,300+ participant hackathon awarding $100K+ in prizes.
Currently, Crystal is building Buzzle, the world’s first and only audio‑only gaming console.
Crystal is a Yellow Rose of Texas and George H.W. Bush Point of Light honoree, and has spoken at international conferences such as ISTE and the National AI Conference. Crystal is a Taco Bell Live Mas Scholar and a student in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology (M&T) at the University of Pennsylvania, studying Computer Science and Business at Wharton.