Making Gaming Accessible and Inclusive with Keisha Howard

Listen Hunnay with Jeannie Mai

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Comedy, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Keisha Howard, founder of Sugar Gamers joins Jeannie to talk all about GAMING. Keisha breaks down the gate-keeping element of the game and tech industries and why she wanted to create Sugar Gamers as a way to be more accessible and inclusive. Jeannie's curious about what it takes to be defined as a gamer and why Keisha took on the goal to make gaming available to more people. Plus Keisha lets Jeannie know why she (as well as everyone listening) might just be a gamer too! https://sugargamers.com twitch.com/sugargamers Follow Keisha: http://twitter.com/sugargamer http://www.gokeisha.com/ For a free 30-day Audible trial, go to audible.com/hunnay or text hunnay to 500 500 Go to Feals.com/jeannie and you'll get 50% off your first order with free shipping As a listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting BetterHelp.com/hunnay Go to FunctionofBeauty.com/LISTEN to take your four part hair profile quiz and save 20% on your first order. Get 10% off during your first three months at ritual.com/MAI For 20% off an EverlyWell at-home lab test, visit EVERLYWELL.com/jeannie and enter code jeannie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Listen honey, listen honey, listen honey.
0:03.0	Listen honey, listen honey.
0:05.0	Listen honey, hey everybody, I hope you're having a bomb week.
0:11.0	I am so excited about our guests today because I have to say my guest is in a field that I am completely
0:19.0	unfamiliar to but at the same time I'm always intrigued by because half of this world lives in her world and I also
0:27.4	think she's beautiful and she's an entrepreneur and she's just bossy in all shapes and ways so Kisha Howard welcome to listen
0:35.4	honey I'm so glad you could be here today I am so glad to be here today when I told
0:40.9	my team that was gonna have a conversation with you today, they were all like,
0:45.0	oh man, this is going to be awesome.
0:48.0	So this is such a treat right now just to get to speak to you and share with you what I'm what I'm doing.
0:54.4	I get to see you on TV, you know, being a badass, but like yeah I'm still like, you know, in the
1:00.6	Matrix over here. Oh, you know what though but it starts right that everybody starts there even for me it starts
1:06.4	in the matrix of my podcast to my YouTube every you know founding business and you know about
1:11.6	that because you founded Sugar Gamers,
1:14.0	which was way back in 2009 and it's been a minute but it's pop in.
1:18.0	So why don't you tell my audience what is Sugar Gamers?
1:21.0	Sugar Gamers is a tech advocacy group, but it's not like, we want to essentially change
1:29.6	what celebrity looks like by exposing the intellectual merits of video games to everyone.
1:36.2	It's a 150 billion dollar industry and women need to be a part of it, especially black women,
1:41.9	black people, you know, just people from marginalized demographics
1:46.6	because there's so many opportunities there,
1:48.6	not just e-sports, not just pro- gaming,
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