Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian (Canadian-American) is an activist in the field of feminist media also a speaker who is Canadian. She was the creator of Feminist Frequency the website which offers videos and blog posts that analyze portrayals of women in popular media. Anita Sarkeesian has been a journalist, critic, as well as an award-winning feminist for nearly a decade. She is the founder and the director executive of Feminist Frequency, a not-for-profit educational website that explores representations of women within popular media narratives. Removing gender stereotypes is the main goals of her organization. She also strives to raise awareness about problems like harassing and targeted attacks against women in the online world. Holding a master's degree in politics and sociology from York University Sarkeesian is also a much sought-after public talker. She has also delivered speeches at TEDxWomen XOXO Festival as well as at the United Nations' Broadband Working Group on Gender. She was interested in female issues as well as feminism from a young age. In 2009, when she was a student at the university level, she launched the site Feminist Frequency. The woman was determined and had a plan to make a web series that would examine the role of gender in games. Then, she found herself in the middle of a cyber-bullying campaign. It didn't deter her from pursuing the project, and instead reinforced her determination as a feminist critic of media. She has won numerous awards in recognition of her many prominent contributions to the field of feministism. Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic who has won numerous accolades and has founded Feminist Frequency a nonprofit educational group that investigates the way women are portrayed in popular culture narratives.