Editing Stevie Case (section)

==Early life==
Case was raised in [[Olathe, Kansas]]. Her parents are a science teacher and a social worker,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=Masters of Doom : how two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture|last=Kushner|first=David|date=2003|publisher=Random House |isbn=0375505245|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=50129329}}</ref>{{Rp|179}}<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-aug-01-cl-61718-story.html|title=She's Winning a Place in the Cyber History Books|last=Levine|first=Bettijane|date=1999-08-01|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=2019-07-09|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> and she has a younger brother named Andy.<ref name="VanityFair_Kushner2022">{{Cite magazine |last=Kushner |first=David |date=2022-10-26 |title=Stevie Case vs. the World: A Pioneering Gamer Opens Up About Industry Sexism |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/10/stevie-case-vs-the-world-gaming-industry-sexism |website=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en-US |access-date=2023-12-30}}</ref> As a child, she enjoyed playing computer games. Her first gaming experiences were with ''[[Lode Runner]]'' and ''[[Joust (video game)|Joust]]'' on an [[Apple IIe]] computer her father bought when she was in second grade.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":9" />

Case attended [[Olathe East High School]] from 1991 to 1994.<ref name=":8">{{Cite court|litigants=Stevana Case, et al. v. Unified School District No. 233, Johnson County, Kansas, et al.|court=United States District Court, D. Kansas.|opinion=|date=November 29, 1995|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13400405202098769348&q=908+f.+supp+864&hl=en&as_sdt=3,26}}</ref> As the [[student government president]],<ref>{{Cite news|title=Queer Fall Preview!|last=Kielwasser|first=Al|date=1994-09-22|work=Bay Area Reporter|issue=38|location=San Francisco, CA|volume=24|page=13|quote="At a news conference this March, Stevie Case, Olathe East High School student body president and lead plaintiff in the ACLU's case, ..."}}</ref> she was one of the [[plaintiff]]s in the 1995 court case ''Case v. Unified School District No. 233''.<ref name=":8" /> During the trial, students and parents in Olathe successfully [[List of most commonly challenged books in the United States|challenged]] the school district's decision to ban ''[[Annie on My Mind|Annie on my Mind]]'' from the school library.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=July 1996|title=Case v. Unified School District No. 233|url=https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1217&context=umeslr|journal=University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review|volume=13|issue=2|pages=288–290}}</ref><ref name="Scales2009">{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/protectingintell0000scal|url-access=registration|title=Protecting Intellectual Freedom in Your School Library: Scenarios from the Front Lines|first=Pat|last=Scales|publisher=American Library Association|year=2009|isbn=978-0-8389-3581-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/protectingintell0000scal/page/22 22]}}</ref> Case later attended the [[University of Kansas]] in hopes of getting into [[law school]].<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|180}}