Stephanie Gomez-Sanchez has loved video games since third grade. It wasn’t until the election of Donald Trump, who famously referred to Mexican immigrants as “rapists,” that she saw a potential career in them.
After the 23-year-old graduates from college this fall, she plans to go into the video game industry. Her goal? To soften the immigration debate in the U.S. by creating characters that look like her Mexican-American family.
“We can all bond over a thing like gaming,” she said.
The University of Delaware, where Gomez-Sanchez is a student, is one of many colleges and universities embracing new programs tailored to pushing students into the multibillion-dollar field of online gaming and esports (the school just graduated its first cohort of about two dozen students).
