AJ Glasser is a games journalist and semi-professional student based in Oakland, California. She recently completed a master's in journalism from Stanford University, holds a B.A. in International Relations from Mills College and is about to embark on a quest for a doctorate in something equally impractical.
 
AJ joined Kotaku as San Francisco Correspondent in August 2008. Prior to that, she was an associate production editor at GamesRadar.com and contributed articles to GamePro, MegaGames, MMORPG.com, the Official Xbox Magazine and Nintendo Power. She first began writing about games as a quality assurance tester at Sega of America and Sony Computer Entertainment – a job she was all too happy to have after working as a "professional panty sniffer" at a women's retailer. She wrote an essay on the subject, which won a prize with the Stanford Storytelling Project and was produced as a segment in their show, Narrow Escapes.
 
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