Black women in business: Mum and her ‘mini CEO’ daughter create app to boost Black girls’ confidence
Yvonne Ottley and her daughter, Alyssa, are helping improve inclusivity in the tech world with their Afro hair championing game Frobelles
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DUO: Yvonne and Alyssa
THE GAMING industry has an inclusion issue. As with other areas of the tech world, racial bias permeates through to the products on offer.
While Black gamers exist, a lack of Black developers means characters that truly represent them are rare. For Yvonne Ottley and her eight-year-old daughter, Alyssa, this unfulfilled desire to see themselves on screen was precisely what inspired their journey into app development.