Staff/Board
Executive Director / Secretary to the Board
Trickssi CA is the founder and executive director of the CSSN. Trickssi has been attending conventions since 2008 and cosplaying in a professional capacity since 2017. A certified Victim Advocate through the National Organization of Victim Advocates (NOVA) since 2021, her contributions to the team involve advocating for survivor-centered, trauma-informed methods. She is the primary monthly evaluator for the Harassment Policy Report Card. Trickssi's passion for growing trauma-informed communities that go beyond bystander intervention training stems in part from her status as a survivor of sexual violence and cyberstalking and never wanting anyone to feel the same pain of isolation.Outside of her work with CSSN, Trickssi, a lifelong dancer and performer, is an accomplished teacher, DJ, and event host in the anime convention social partner dance scene since 2015. Her favorite credits include serving as Head DJ for FanimeCon Black & White Ball since 2022 and Supervisor for the Tekko Formal Dance Team since 2019. In her social partner dance events, she advocates for education, inclusivity, and safety for all ages and levels of learners, acknowledging that marginalized groups often don't get the same opportunity to learn as competitive Ballroom dancers. She is also a strong advocate for mandatory N-95 or higher quality masking and enhanced air filtration wherever she hosts dance events because the ongoing COVID pandemic has been catastrophically unaddressed in the convention community.
She can be reached at info@cosplayer-ssn.org. Photo credit: Sewing with Kenna / @kenna.sews (formerly Houkakyou).
Operations Director / President of the Board
Feytaline is a cosplayer, artist, and invisible disabilities advocate who has been with CSSN since its inception. She has been working with conventions since 2005, holding various positions from Artist's Alley head to convention chair to cosplay manager, for events with as few as ten attendees to as many as tens of thousands! As a survivor herself, she is devoted to creating a community where people are safe to express themselves and where harmful attitudes are not accepted or rewarded.In addition to her work with CSSN, Feytaline also operates a free photography meetup group and Discord, Western PA Cosplay Shoots, which she founded in 2015.
She can be reached at feytaline@cosplayer-ssn.org. Photo credit: Jordan Jones.
Communications Director / Board Treasurer
Fractali CA is our webmistress, social media manager, and columnist. A writer and cosplayer, she has a bachelor's in Biology and Psychology with a focus on personality and social psychology. Her honors thesis studied the effect self-esteem can have on rape myth acceptance in individuals who identify as female. She is pursuing a Masters degree in Business Psychology.Fractali spent seven years volunteering at a shelter for survivors of intimate personal violence and another twelve working with foster children who suffered abuse and neglect. She has completed courses with the Office for Victims of Crime's Victim Assistance Training and the End Violence Against Women International's Online Training Institute. Please report any technical issues to her at admin@cosplayer-ssn.org. Business inquiries can be sent to legal@cosplayer-ssn.org.
Photo credit: Sewing with Kenna / @kenna.sews (formerly Houkakyou).