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    Acknowledgements

    Adrienne Shaw (Researcher & Author), US Game Studies Scholar and Associate Professor at Temple University in the Klein College of Media and Communication

    Blair Durkee (Researcher & Author), Associate Director of Gaming at GLAAD

    Annabelle Cook (Researcher & Author), Consultant, GLAAD Media Institute

    Tristan Marra (Researcher), Vice President of Research & Reports at GLAAD

    Margaret Gallagher (Layout & Design) Ideas on Fire (Copy Editing)

    SPECIAL THANKS

    Gwendolyn Pointer, Rich Ferraro, Nick Adams, Raina Deerwater, Megan Townsend, Tony Morrison, and Heidi Spillum

    ADDITIONAL SPECIAL THANKS to the Nielsen Games Team, to Stacie deArmas, and Patricia Ratulangi at Nielsen

    Leadership support for GLAAD Gaming provided by Logitech

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