Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly is a writer and activist whose work focuses on the role of gender in culture, politics, religion and media. She is the Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project , dedicated to curbing online abuse, increasing media and tech diversity, and expanding women's freedom of expression. She also speaks regularly about gender, social justice and sexual violence on high school and college campuses. In 2013, she won the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s (AEJMC)'s Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy and the Secular Woman Feminist Activism Award. In 2014, she was named one of Elle Magazine's 25 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter. She writes and speaks regularly about gender, media, tech, education, women's rights, sexual violence and free speech. Her new book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger (Atria Books) is available now.