Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian/American media critic is also a popular public speaker. She founded Feminist Frequency the website which includes videos and comments on portrayals of women in popular culture. Anita Sarkeesian was a Canadian as well as an American feminist media critic. Feminist Frequency investigates how women are depicted in popular culture. Aiming to break down the stereotypes that are associated with females in popular culture, she works to highlight issues related to harassment targeted at women and the other marginalized groups of the Internet environment. Sarkeesian is a graduate in social thought and politics at York University. She is also an internationally acclaimed public speaking. Sarkeesian gave speeches to the TEDxWomen Festival as well as to the United Nations Broadband Working Group. She has been interested in feminist issues, gender and gender equality at a early stage of her life. In 2009, when she was still studying at university she started the Feminist Frequency site. The ambitious lady planned to create a web series that would examine gender-based representations in video games. She ended up being the victim of a harassment online campaign. The incident did not deter her from pursuing the project, and instead it bolstered the determination of feminist media critic. In recognition of the many accomplishments she's made to feminism, she is awarded numerous prizes. Anita Sarkeesian was a multi-award winning journalist. She is also the creator and director of Feminist Frequency an educational non-profit group that focuses on pop-culture gender representations.