Aerial Powers

Aerial Powers is an American professional women's basketball player for the World Champion Washington Mystics of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Aerial was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Michigan State University where she graduated with a degree in Communications.

As a woman in gaming and STEM, Aerial empowers young women to code and be innovative with technology. Aerial is a member of the Global Esports Federation on the Athletes and Players Commission. Her mission is to use her global platform and social media presence to promote women and persons of color in gaming, healthy gaming and making gaming inclusive and accessible to all.

Aerial, whose gamertag is Powerzsurge, has become a global influencer in the esports world and has an international following in China, Turkey and South Korea. She is the most popular and visible gamer in the WNBA and enjoys playing NBA 2K, Apex Legend, Call of Duty and Valorant.