The DeanBeat: The State Department’s gaming man wants more citizen diplomats

Josh Shen is one of the only people in the federal government whose job has a lot to do with video games. He’s a foreign service officer in the State Department, and he surfaced this week as a speaker at the Games for Change online event about games that make a social impact in our lives.

You can think of him as a friend of the gaming industry in Washington, D.C.