Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian was born in Canada and raised in the US. She has worked as media critic since. Feminist Frequency hosts videos, commentaries and analysis of the way in which popular culture portrays women. Anita Sarkeesian a Canadian American media critic. Feminist Frequency is an educational non-profit website that investigates representations of women in popular culture narratives. Committed to deconstructing the stereotypes that are associated with females in pop culture she also works to highlight issues related to targeted exploitation of women as well as other classes of the Internet environment. Sarkeesian holds a Masters in social and political thinking from York University. As a public speaker, she's well-known and has been a speaker at TEDxWomenXOXO and the United Nations Broadband Working Group. While a student at university she became interested in the issues surrounding gender equality and the rights of women at an early stage. The site was created by a woman in her early 20s determined to make the series of videos on the internet which would explore how gender is represented in video games. However, she became the target of cyber-bullying. The incident did not deter her, rather it strengthened her resolve as an activist for women in media. She has won several awards for her contributions to feminism. Anita Sarkeesian, a media journalist who has received numerous awards and created Feminist Frequency as an educational organization that focuses on how women are represented in popular culture narratives.