Being a Latina in the Video Game Industry

Hyphenated with Joanna Hausmann and Jenny Lorenzo

Pitaya Entertainment

Us Latinos, Education, Comedy, Hyphenated, Pitaya, Jenny Lorenzo, Latinx, Joanna Hausmann, Society & Culture

5 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jenny welcomes her best friend Karla Guerra, who is a Marketing and Publishing Producer for Hi-Rez Studios, as they talk about her journey working her way up in the video game industry without a college degree, and the undertaking to help create video games that feature diverse and inclusive characters (as well as the origins of the very particular best friends nickname Jenny and Karla have for each other).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone,
0:02.0	Pita'ya
0:04.0	Hi everyone, I'm Jenny, and this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.
0:15.0	Okay, so I am stoked because I am talking to, interviewing my very best friend in the whole wide world,
0:24.6	a tiny little leche, Carla Guerrha Jimenez.
0:30.2	I love your intro. That was a, that was a legit intro. I appreciate it.
0:35.5	Do you want to tell people why little leche?
0:41.0	I had a feeling you were going to go for that. Okay, so Jenny and I have been best friends for how long now?
0:47.6	It's... This is both of us having like math issues. Over a decade. Yeah, over a decade for sure yeah but when jenny and i first
0:58.6	like started becoming close um i don't even know how it happened were we just showing each other
1:06.6	cute animal pictures yes or something as we always do yeah we were showing each other like cute like animal pictures. Yes. Or something. As we always do.
1:11.5	Yeah.
1:12.2	We were showing each other like cute like animal pictures or memes or something like I can't
1:17.5	remember exactly.
1:19.0	But the whole point is at one point I showed her like a picture of this like baby otter.
1:26.7	Jenny just yells at the top of her lungs.
1:29.5	She's like, I want to feed it leche.
1:32.0	And ever since then, for some reason, we just called each other leche.
1:39.4	And it just, like, literally it is to the point now where if you call me Carla, it is weird to me.
1:48.7	It's like it's like a mom using their kids full name and it's like what did I do?
1:53.9	Yeah, it is it is legitimately bizarre.
1:56.8	Like there's been a few times that you've like had to call me Carla and I'm like, what did you say?
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