Role Models: How I Landed My Dream Job In Gaming With Jen Oneal

Jen Oneal is a proven video game industry veteran who’s passionate about advancing the state of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the industry. She currently serves on the board of Women in Gaming International, as well as the leadership team of the National Coalition for Equity Impact. She also served for more than five years as an advisory board member to the Young Women’s Leadership Initiative. With more than two decades of gaming industry experience in the gaming industry, Jen most recently served in senior leadership roles at Blizzard Entertainment. Prior to that, she was studio head at Vicarious Visions, overseeing the development and production of both the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy and Diablo II: Resurrected. She got her start in production at LucasArts in the late 1990s before becoming a senior producer at Activision. Missed a line of code? No worries! View the CODE Along Cheat Sheet here: tinyurl.com/bgccheatsheet Want more? Sign up to join Black Girls CODE's community at community.wearebgc.org About CODE Along Everyone is invited to CODE Along with Black Girls CODE. It's a free, video-based coding academy by Black Girls CODE in partnership with GoldieBlox. Here Black girls, young women, and students of all genders receive tangible, educational, and entertaining tutorials to help incite interest in computer science and technology. With fun and impactful projects, simple step-by-step lessons, this series encourages you to code along while our expert coders make digital art, animated art, and build obstacle courses (aka an obby) in Roblox. In these 15 minutes or less episodes, CODE Along is designed to reach millions of underrepresented girls and arm them with the tech skills and confidence they need to build brighter futures. Speaking of future innovators – we also chatted with nearly a dozen girl bosses about their careers in animation, digital art, NFTs, gaming, and more. Learn a new skill, discover a new role model, and CODE Along with us. #howtocode #blackgirlscode #goldieblox #javascript #codingtutorial #codealong #p5js #howtocode #codingforbeginners #codingforkidsfree #gamingvideos #tekken7 #jenoneal #blackgirlmagic #blackgamer

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