Julia Bianco Schoeffling is the Co-Founder and COO of The Halp Network, a boutique, Black- and female-owned creative services and production company working across games and interactive media. Since co-founding THN, Julia and her team have contributed to some of the most celebrated titles in gaming today, including Bungie's Marathon, Hades II, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, as well as culturally groundbreaking work like DONTNOD's Tell Me Why, which introduced gaming's first playable transgender protagonist.

A casting director with over 20 years of industry experience, Julia is also Chair of the Games Committee for BAFTA North America, co-chair of GameSoundCon's Dialogue & Performance Track, and author of The Art and Business of Acting for Video Games, the first book of its kind. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Wired, and Backstage.