![]() “I never really got a sense that it wasn’t a place for women or for girls to be interested in it.” “I came into the industry thinking, ‘This is what I do and this is how it’s supposed to be,’” she says. My parents never told me it was weird for girls to like video games or never tried to prevent me from playing with computers, according to Belmont. She uses her own childhood to illustrate her point. “If younger girls see that there’s a place for them, that there’s an industry that’s willing to accept them, there will be more women getting into game development and engineering,” she says. The first hurdle, however, is a shallow hiring pool that Belmont wants to fill by getting young women interested early on. The host of Tekzilla, a weekly show where she delivers tech and gadget advice and answers viewer’s questions, wants to see more women designing gadgets and games. Recently, Belmont, who lives in the Mission with her cat, Devo, and her husband, Ryan Block, who founded gdgt, a tech-product website, talked to Mission Local about gaming, women and the Mission. Not if Belmont, a leading female tech and video game expert ( 1.6 million Twitter followers), has anything to say about it. ![]()
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