About Us

The editors of the GEN all represent a unique and amazing personality in the world of today’s pop culture. Get to know the ladies who run the Girls Entertainment Network.

	“LEADING LADY”
Becky started her career in the video game industry working as Marketing Coordinator for Mythic Entertainment on the title Dark Age of Camelot. An avid gamer, Becky has been involved in the gaming community, in one capacity or another, for over 7 years. She is currently “The Video Game Nussie” on Maxim Radio’s Covino and Rich show (Sirius Satellite - channel 108), Reoccurring guest of “The Loop” on Attack of the Show (G4 TV), Co-host on The Next Level (www.gamemusicradio.com), consultant on numerous gaming titles and the Event Director of the world concert tour - Video Games Live.She is the creator and leading lady of the Girls Entertainment. Her goal is to create a community and hub for all girls to realize their dreams, make friends and grow as individuals.


	“COMIC MAVEN”
Born and raised in Bronx, NY - Heather grew up collecting Marvel X-Men comics, collecting comic cards and drawing them in her spare time. In the beginning all she cared about was the artwork and trying to duplicate what she was looking at. Then Spidey entered her life though a best friend and she found Peter Parker’s story very interesting. Heather identified with one of Spiderman’s love intrests, The Black Cat, and decided to make the costume one Halloween. It was a match made in heaven. A few years later, she was introduced to comic conventions and her love affair with cosplay and comics was born. It didn’t stop there. Soon she would be attending events from Star Wars to Star Trek and beyond.


	“CULTURE QUEEN”
Born in the Philippines, Jinx was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, by a family of gamers. With two older brothers with part time jobs, their house was always stocked with the latest in video games. Nowadays, Jinx’s life is so busy she gets most of her gaming done of the go - thanks to her trusty Nintendo DS Lite stashed in her purse. Jinx was originally a Sega girl at heart and has owned every Sega system imaginable (minus the GameGear) up until Sega’s demise following the Dreamcast. She’s now opening her heart up to Nintendo. Her other favorite gaming genres include RPGs and music games. Apart from the gaming world, Jinx is an aspiring actress and model and a constant participant of pageants. When there is time or money available, she does enjoy a little cosplay here and there. You can even hear her shouting obscenities at you in Juiced 2 as Keiko!


	“MANGA MAGE”
Ashley’s love for videogames is only surpassed by the desire to watch anime. She has been playing videogames since the age of five. She started playing Bubble Bobble with her younger brother and never looked back. Ashley slowly became more interested in Japanese culture though videogames, especially the Final Fantasy series, and discovered the wonderful world of anime. If she isn’t designing, drawing, gaming, or collecting figures, she is immersing herself in anime. Ashley is a graphic designer who is inspired by anime and loves that is shines through in her designs.Every type of anime is appreciated whether it is violent, perverted, ridiculous, or romantic. Kannaya believes there is an anime or manga out there for everyone, and she is here to help them discover and enjoy it.


	“MAMA MADDEN”
Cristina was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Her first gaming system was the NES, which her father bought for her when she was five. She stuck to playing Mario until she was about 22 and then discovered that there was a whole video game world outside of saving Princess Peach. She is married with two little girls (ages 7 & 5). Their two daughters are already showing signs of becoming active gamers. Playing time with the 360 is a reward for good behavior in the household.


	“COSPLAY CONNOISSEUR”
Brittany first started cosplaying in 2003 and has not looked back since! Her passion for hosting fun events and cosplay finally came together when she became head of the SoCal Cosplay Gatherings group. Her favorite video game of all time is Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and dreams of creating a costume for each one of the minor characters in that series. She tends to root for the little guy! Though she claims to be no master seamstress, she loves learning new ways to create costumes, weapons, props, and accessories. Her first video game was Super Mario Bros. and has recently become an addict for the entire Guitar Hero series, another game she cosplays from. She loves being a part of the cosplay community and sincerely feels it’s one of the most creative outlets anyone could have!


	“GADGET GURU”
Clare is a very competitive individual and loves a challenge. Since a very young age, Clare’s been dabbling in all sorts of male-dominated arenas that include everything from several martial arts, video games, and even gaining fame in the tournament paintball industry as one of the top female paintball players in the world. She started out playing on her Atari 2600 and soon thereafter jumped onto the NES and hasn’t stopped playing since. Clare’s favorite type of video games are first-person shooters and has even appeared as one of the main playable characters in a paintball video game. In addition, she’s been a paintball spokesmodel and has had her own calendar. Aside for the love of gaming and paintball, she’s also big into the latest and greatest technology and gadgets. If Clare had a larger bank account, she’d have a house full of gadgets that would rival that of Bill Gates himself.


	“GAMING GODDESS”
Raychul not only works in the video game industry, but has an independent modeling career and co-hosts a podcast with her best friend (www.SpikeandRaychul.com). She has been going to gaming conventions for about 3 years now. She has appeared in Electronic Gaming Monthly, the late Playstation Magazine, PC World, and covered E For All 2007 for GamePro. She also appeared in Penthouse for an article on gamer girls (no she wasn’t naked). Raychul is also a part of a group of gamers put together by Sony called the Game Advisory Panel, who beta test games and complete surveys on multiplayer options, game characters and game content. Raychul loves gaming, it’s definitely an important part of her life! It makes her happy and why not love what makes you happy!


	“ANIME ANGEL”
Traycee’s addiction to gaming began at the age of 4 when her father and brother introduced her to the Atari 5200; she dominated at Kangaroo. By the age of 9, Traycee had played/beaten so many games that she decided to create a list in order to keep track of them. While doing so, she came up with a scoring system that rated these games by fun factor, graphics, difficulty, end boss difficulty, story line, music, etc. Unfortunately at the age of 14, “the list” was lost during her move to Hawaii when her Navy father had received orders to be stationed there. While living the island lifestyle, a friend opened her eyes to the colorful world of anime/manga. She considers Battle Angel Alita her absolute favorite character; so much so that she tattooed her image on her left arm. Other than gaming and anime/manga collecting, she draws, is a SAG actress/model, and is involved with several charities. She currently attends UCLA, majoring in anthropology with an emphasis in archeology and a minor in drama.


	“COMMUNITY COVERGIRL”
Meagan is a nerd of many faces. Ever since Lara Croft entered her life, she knew that video games had the ability to profoundly impact lives. Her love of video games, fostered by her two brothers, grew year by year until it became the passion that it is today. Lara Croft was not only important in her love for video games, but it was also her catalyst into the comic world. Seeing her first Tomb Raider comic cover hooked her to the world of comics. She is a huge fan of Top Cow comics, as well as and Aspen Comic titles. Despite loving newer and darker titles, the classics such as Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman still hold a place in her heart. Anime and Japanese culture are also budding interests for Meagan. Her love for video games, comics and anime naturally lead her to grow an interest in cosplay, which is her newest addiction. Meagan is a graphic designer with a minor in journalism, who holds video games and the video game culture in as high of a regard as oxygen. Meagan currently works for Game Informer Online which gives her a unique behind the scenes look into the video game world.


	“Website Wonder”
As a guest writer for GEN, Lauren’s primary role on the site deals with the background and technical side of things If there is a bug or any problems, please let her know asap. British born Lauren Wainwright also works on a number of Video Game & Anime related projects, such as European podcast “Podcastle“, editor at toy/figurine blog Tomopop.com as well as her articles featured on Destructoid.com.


	“PR PRINCESS”
Jenny was born in England and moved to Northern Virginia at age 6. Her love of video games started at age 7 when her father gave her a NES. She became hooked on Bubble Bobble and Maniac Mansion. Jenny’s favorite games include Chrono Trigger, Goldeneye, Gears of War, and Call of Duty 4. Within this next year, she hopes to start gaming competitively with COD4 or Halo. Besides gaming, Jenny likes socializing, cooking, and promoting good music. Jenny currently works full time in promotions and part time at Gamestop. She is majoring in Communications with a concentration in Public Relations and a minor in Advertisement.


	“MARKETING MAJESTY”
Hailing from Seattle, Alli is an avid gamer of console & PC but mainly MMO games.Her first taste at gaming was at age 5 with her brothers Atari and Pong consoles. Ever since then she was hooked, and even more when she got a Commadore 64 for her 7th birthday. She was fascinated by the 8 bit graphics that later on turned into a passion for art in games. Alli is an aspiring 3d game artist, her dream is to become a content/art designer for casual, internet, console, and or PC games.Her other passions are Cosplaying, her drama troupe, cooking, building computers, music & just being her geeky self.Alli is currently a staff news writer for Casters Realm, and works as a CSR for a casual gaming company in Seattle.

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