Now I am a team manager and I have the ability to hire recent grads who are looking for their first game job. I'm able to give them advice while trying to push them to add to their rapport at this job. For many, it's a breakthrough, when job applications were not receiving replies. Honestly the impatience of not moving up has totally gotten to me in recent years. So since I am being given a lot of responsibility, I will try to stop them from waiting too long to get moving on their repertoire so that doesn't happen to them.
Bay Area Womxn in Games constantly works to include transwomen and has a spectacular board of advisors from a variety of backgrounds. We are open to new leadership. Here's one example of how we have striven to include speakers of all backgrounds, despite the closed-minded tendency of sponsors and other organizations. I'm responsible for the first 2 years of the Bay Area Womxn in Games conference. When we partnered up with Women in Games International (WIGI) we were thrilled to finally meet our goal after 2 years of independent organizing. We were going to meet the organization that started it all, who inspired us to create a local organization in the first place, and they invited us to their board meeting. However, as we attended a few meetings, the conversations became more and more depressing. The people who were elected to be leaders did not know how to lead. After all, you have a team of unpaid volunteers. Let them be motivated to contribute the way that their natural s...
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