The L.A. Times did a feature on the summer camp! Female gamers, no strangers to online harassment, learn ways to combat discrimination during summer camp at UCI From the article: Kim Phan, director of eSports operations at Irvine-based gaming company Blizzard, said that one way to encourage more girls to game is to start early.…

I have been invited to San Diego Comic Con as a panelist for the College/GeekEd portion of the “Comic Conference for Educators and Librarians” series. This year is the second year of a partnership between Comic-Con International and the San Diego Public Library to “explore the role comics play in promoting education and literacy for…

A few weeks ago a volunteer staff that I was a part of implemented UCI’s very first eSports summer camp. Specifically, the summer camp was for girls who are interested in competitive gaming and wanted to learn more about the eSports industry. Working together under the direction of the UCI eSports Arena Director and Coordinator,…

I coauthored a paper with some of my colleagues in the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction on the design of Minecraft as an accessible makerspace that allows for the creation of inclusive environments that encourage self-expression, particularly for youth with autism. My contribution to the paper was to lend a critical eye to the…

On April 1st last month I presented my initial research on Overwatch and perceptions of queer representation in (and outside of) the game at the 2017 Queerness and Games Conference at USC in Los Angeles. The presentation was streamed and recorded and is now available through YouTube. All of the presentations in my panel session…

The panel of professionals in and around the video gaming industry, which I moderated, was recorded and made available on YouTube thanks to the efforts of some amazing people in the UCI Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. I am very grateful to the other sponsors involved in the planning and execution of…

Today is the Women in Gaming Panel here at UCI. This project has been very intensive for me in a number of ways, but it has also provided opportunities for new experiences and meeting people who care about inclusive gaming. Check out this ESPN article where I discuss some of the background research and motivation…

This Thursday, February 2nd, I will be moderating the “Women in Gaming” panel here at UCI. I am both excited and honored to have this opportunity to support UCI’s commitment to inclusive gaming and to meet such interesting women who are representing several aspects of the gaming industry. Check out the website below. I plan…

Welcome to Constructs of the Constructs, originally hosted by Sites@UCI. This site began in October 2016 as a platform for sharing my PhD process. The site migrated to an external WordPress server in March 2022 so I can continue to have some kind of web presence to point at as I progress in a career…