Women in gaming have advantages and obstacles to overcome, panelists say

Danielle Finn, director of the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, is an Inhanktowan Dakota, and Hohé Nakota citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. “I just grew up with gaming and the culture in Class I and Class II,” says Finn during a CDC Gaming Roundtable on women in gaming. “Then as you get older, you get trained or you get education, you get into Class III, and you end up running the entire systems from the floor up.” For women in the gaming industry, there…