Carrie Jo Patton hosts the Unicorn Company Podcast, a BattleTech focused miniatures gaming podcast and YouTube channel. Her YouTube channel focuses primarily on miniatures, miniature games, and BattleTech fiction reviews. Her podcast covers a variety of topics, from BattleTech lore and technology, to the intersection of the LGBTQ community and gaming. She has also helped to playtest a number of rulebooks and supplements for Catalyst Game Labs, including the Alpha Strike Commander’s Edition and PseudoTech: Arcade Operations. In addition to her tabletop gaming experience, she is an established commission painter having won local awards, and placed in convention painting competitions. She is also an experienced 3D printing enthusiast, having worked with both FDM and resin printing.
In her personal life, Carrie enjoys reading, trying to paint original art on canvas, spending time with her partners, petting cats, and of course painting little plastic stompy robots. She has a interest in military history, going back to her childhood, when her parents bought her an over 400-page tome detailing the events of Pearl Harbor. Carrie has played everything from modern miniatures and board games to Avalon Hill games such as Victory in the Pacific, she also has a history of fundraising, having organized fundraisers for the Trevor Project, and having raised over $15,000 dollars to help at risk LGBTQ youth.
