Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Cora Kennedy

Cora Kennedy

An educator at heart, Cora Kennedy has been a leading face in academic esports since 2018 when she started as a high school teacher and esports director. From there, she was one of the directors of the largest state high school esports league in the nation before shifting to collegiate esports in 2021 as the Director of Esports at Illinois Wesleyan University. Since then, she has become a pivotal figure in collegiate esports as the loudest advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion in a variety of roles and uses her platform to educate and improve the space every day.

Women's Spaces and esports

Women’s Spaces: Stereotypes are not Inclusive, Existence is not Progress

Editor's note: The following article is an opinion piece and does not necessarily represent the views of The Esports Advocate or its staff. Introduction While women make up a fairly substantial proportion of the gamer population with Statista reporting that an estimated 46% of the total population of gamers in the US being women (Statista & Clement, 2023), that number sharply declines for esports on a competitive and amateur scale. While no group has been able to firmly determine what...