Anita Saarkessian

Anita Sarkeesian has been a Canadian and American feminist media analyst for more than twenty years. She is also a seasoned public speaker. Feminist Frequency was created by Sarkeesian. It hosts video clips featuring commentary and analysis of the representations of women that are prevalent in the media and popular culture of today. Anita Sarkeesian has been a media critic, blogger and award-winning feminist for over 10 years. She is the author and director of executive for Feminist Frequency an educational not-for-profit website which explores representations of women in pop stories of culture. Committed to destroying the stereotypes that are associated with women in pop culture, she also works on issues related the gender-specific harassment of women as well as other classes of people online. With a master's in the field of political and social thinking at York University Sarkeesian is also an extremely sought-after public speaking engagement and has given speech at the TEDxWomen Festival as well as The United Nations' Broadband Working Group on Gender. While a student at university Sarkeesian was interested in the issues surrounding gender and rights for women at an early stage. Someone who hoped to create a web series that examined the gender-based representation in video games, she was targeted by an internet-based campaign. The incident did not deter her, rather it strengthened her resolve as a feminist critic of media. Numerous awards have been given to her as a way of acknowledging her contributions to the field she contributed to. Anita Sarkeesian, a media critic, has been awarded numerous awards and created Feminist Frequency which is an educational non-profit that examines how women are represented in popular culture narratives.