JESSICA WELLS Editor at The Loadout
JESSICA launched The Loadout with a team of only two people in 2019, and has since managed to grow the website into one with five writers that receives six million or more page views a month. Described by one of her supporters as a “real leader who would jump in the trenches with you too”, she is absolutely one of the standout young editors within
the industry, encouraging creativity and always listening to her team when they have questions or raise concerns. Jessica also regularly encourages new voices, and The Loadout also has a diversity and inclusion fund for freelancers, which it regularly uses to provide work to people from underrepresented backgrounds within the industry.
LAUREN broke away from a career in corporate marketing, hoping to make a difference in the world and moving into video game communications. They put a strong focus on empathy and care for others, advocating for mental health awareness and nurturing a safe environment around themselves whenever they can. They often use their free time to be a Safe In Our World ambassador, and regularly help marginalised people with making progress in their career whenever possible. They were also one of the Community Visionaries at the MCV/ DEVELOP Awards in 2021.
LAUREN MOSES Community Manager at Code Covenn
MILLICENT THOMAS
Influencer Manager at PlayStation
NATALIE BAHBOUT Account Director at Swipe Right PR
MJ WIDOMSKA Founder and Director at YRS TRULY
MJ started her now award winning creative marketing agency YRS TRULY at only 23 years old, and has quickly turned it into a successful business that has worked with some of the games industry’s biggest brands, including the likes of Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, SEGA, ASUS, Private Division and Bandai Namco. Four years on, she’s now in charge of a diverse team of close to ten full-time employees, and she leads them with an ethos of fairness and transparency. Both YRS TRULY and MJ both care deeply about people and the society around them, and honestly it was a shock to us that she wasn’t already put on this list years ago.
DESCRIBED as the “heart and soul of Swipe Right PR” by one of her supporters, Natalie has worked to quickly progress within the company, and provided public relations services to some of the biggest games and brands in the industry like Valheim, Deep Rock Galactic, Red Bull Gaming, PUBG MOBILE, Coffee Stain and FACEIT on her way up to the top. She also works with several esports teams, and balances all of her responsibilities with a level of professionalism and expertise that has only increased the amount of business brought her way.
MILLICENT moved over into the games industry after some time spent in the film industry as a journalist, quickly becoming PlayStation UK’s first ever Influencer Manager after a stint in communications at Ubisoft. She’s a persevering, dedicated, working-class woman in games, and graduated from Bath Spa University alongside working at GamesRadar+, Into Games and PlayStation UK. She did this while caring for an unwell relative, and during the pandemic. We are frankly staggered by her strength. Earlier this year, she also won the MCV/DEVELOP 2022 Women in Games Rising Star Award.
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