Unicorn story: How this young woman went from student to indie game studio chief

The game and tech industry has heard a lot of chatter about diversity, recruiting women and minorities into development, and encouraging girls to become engineers. This kind of talk usually takes place on a high level, with chief executives like Brian Krzanich at Intel weighing in about how to improve the pipeline of girls and women in technical fields.

One of the great causes of the game industry and Silicon Valley is to double the number of diverse people in the corporate world, but a lot of companies confess that they just can’t find enough women or underrepresented minorities to hire and promote. We thought we would look at it from a young woman’s point of view.