Abbey Perl and Diverse Gaming Coalition

Abbey Perl started the Diverse Gaming Coalition to help combat online bullying through video games and modern pop culture. In this episode, I talk to her about why she started it, how she went about starting a non-profit organization, and much more.
Show Notes

* Abbey Perl
* Diverse Gaming Coalition 
* Twitch.TV
* @Ninja

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Intro: Hello everyone and welcome to episode 85 of How I Built It. In today’s episode I talk to Abbey Perl, founder of the Diverse Gaming Coalition. I met Abbey at WordCamp Lancaster and was impressed by what she’s accomplished at such a young age. She started her NPO to raise awareness and help victims of bullying, through the help of the video game community. Such a great cause that We’ll get into a minute, but first….
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And now…on with the show.
Joe Casabona: Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of How I Built It, the podcast that asks, “How did you build that?” Today, my guest is Abbey Sager of the Diverse Gaming Coalition. Abbey, how are you?
Abbey Perl: I’m doing good, how are you?
Joe: I am fantastic. Thanks so much for joining me today.
I met Abbey at WordCamp Lancaster 2018 and we went on a Chipotle adventure, and after getting to know Abbey a little bit better I decided that she should definitely be on the podcast, so thanks so much for being here.
Abbey: Yeah. Thank you for having me.
Joe: Absolutely. Why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit about who you are and what the Diverse Gaming Coalition is, and how you came up with the idea?
Abbey: I’m a current college student, I’m about to end my sophomore year of college at Southern New Hampshire University Online. Everyone always asks me about online school, and I love it, it’s great. I’m currently studying nonprofit management, it’s a business administration degree, and with that degree I work on my nonprofit Diverse Gaming Coalition.
I started that about two years ago now and I started that after my junior year of high school. I dropped out in the middle of it because of a lot of factors, one of them being intense bullying. I received my GED and instead of just getting my GED and moving on to the next step in life, I wanted to create something that I can use to help others.
So, that’s why I created Diverse Gaming Coalition. Now I’m here a few years later, working on Coalition. I go to a lot of conventions and stuff like WordCamps to speak about kindness, compassion, bullying, harassment, other in-between topics.
Joe: Gotcha. Man,