Artist Alley volunteers strive to improve artist alley for artist and attendees by providing excellent professionalism throughout the entire experience. Volunteers assist in enforcing policies to ensure the safety of all parties involved, provide excellent customer service with accountability and integrity, as well as create an enjoyable environment for our artists and create memorable experiences.

Dedicated to sharing dance related interactive entertainment and programming to attendees.

Cosplay volunteers support a variety of Cosplay-related activities at Anime Expo, such as distributing repair items at the Cosplay Repair Station and maintaining the Cosplay Photo Sets in Entertainment Hall, and placing the site numbers at the Cosplay Gathering areas!

Key duties include: incident reports, facilitation with any medical or security emergencies, and supporting attendees with ADA needs, customer service, and logging/reporting lost & found items.

To provide excellent customer service and enforces policies that ensure the safety of all attendees in the Exhibit Hall. Duties during the convention may include: traffic flow, resolving disputes, reporting incidents, and facilitating infringement cases.

Handler volunteers accompany assigned Guests throughout the entirety of their participation, providing services such as navigation, light security, schedule management, and general support to Guests. Handler volunteers’ primary goal is to ensure Guests receive all necessary information and resources to fulfill their participation and have an enjoyable experience at Anime Expo.

The Logistics volunteer department provides services such as pallet wrapping, inventory management, and on-call assistance to all departments throughout con.

To provide attendees, over the age of 21, with unique experiences that entails anime-themed events or musical acts within a safe bar/lounge setting.

Programming volunteers ensure that all Anime Expo panels and workshops run smoothly throughout the convention! Programming volunteers assist with room preparation, ensuring panels are running as scheduled, ushering AX attendees, technical assistance, and assisting with enforcement of room policies. In addition, Programming volunteers also work alongside and support Industry members and Guests to present their panels and/or premieres.

To ensure the quality wayfinding, and room layouts as well as ensuring the proper activation of safe spaces to support SPJA’s Youth Protection Policy.

Volunteer Resources volunteers support the Anime Expo Volunteer Program by assisting with pre-con events (credential and swag pick-up) and at-con support, such as, assisting onsite with Volunteer Meal Tent scanning, as well as answering any volunteer-related questions at the VR HQ.