I'm Grant Haver, I'm Zoe Weinberg, and this is Next In Foreign Policy, the podcast

where the next generation of national security and foreign policy leaders talk about the

issues of today and tomorrow.

This is our third and final installment on our series on media and entertainment and

its impact on global affairs.

Today we're joined by Bonner Price, this chief of staff at a mobile gaming and interactive

media company.

She was previously the founder of a startup in the media space and worked on content

strategy at Netflix.

Bonner, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Bonner, will you tell us how you originally became interested in media and an entertainment?

Yeah, so I was actually a gamer before I was a TV watcher, so growing up we were not

allowed to watch TV in my house.

My parents were pretty strict about it unless it was a Sunday morning on my grandmother's

house or at a friend's house, but my dad had founded an early pre-.com bubble startup

in the computer space and so they were pretty liberal about letting us play with computers,

and so I was pretty early into playing the Sims and civilization in some early video games

and I remember just really enjoying that and loving the ability to kind of lead your own

story.

The educational aspects as well, particularly in children's gaming, I don't know if you

guys remember Oregon Trail and math blaster, but I probably spat maybe a month of my life

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