Jess is a writer, freelance journalist, researcher and diversity advocate whose work primarily focuses on promoting inclusion, accessibility and representation in games. She is a director of not-for-profit organisation Represent Me, through which she has collected and presented research on the current state of representation in games themselves, community attitudes towards what representation means, and how we can do better as an industry to ensure more authentic stories are told. She is also the current chair of the IGDA LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group, and in 2020, she co-authored a book titled Cooperative Gaming: Diversity in the Games Industry and How to Cultivate Inclusion. She currently works remotely for Adelaide-based studio Mighty Kingdom as a User Experience Researcher, where she is passionate about ensuring marginalised voices are heard and considered and that their games are accessible and enjoyable for everyone.