Feministing’s Speakers

Bring a Feministing Editor to your campus this semester! Some of your favorite Feministing writers speak on college campuses and at organizations – find out more about our individual speakers below…

Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the Executive Editor of Feministing.com and is a web strategist for grassroots groups committed to using online technology to spread their messages. She has written and spoken extensively on race, media, technology and gender, with a specific focus on the intersection of race and gender, whether in popular culture or politics. Mukhopadhyay has written for multiple media outlets, including New American Media, Wiretap, Colorlines, The Nation and The American Prospect. She has also been featured in India Currents Magazine, Nirali Magazine and Alternet. In 2007 she was named a Champion of Sexual Literacy by the National Sexuality Resource Center. She is currently writing a book for Seal Press about the dating and romance industry titled, Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. Mukhopadhyay has been featured on multiple panels, including South by South West Interactive, Allied Media Conference, National Conference on Media Reform and Women, Action and Media, discussing gender, race, sexuality and the internet. To book her to speak at your school contact Jodi Solomon Speaker’s Bureau.

Miriam Zoila Pérez is a blogger, activist and Radical Doula. She has spoken at conferences and colleges across the country on topics like reproductive justice, Latinas in the US, feminism and gender non-conformity and LGBT organizing. Pérez’s writing has appeared in numerous publications and most recently the anthology CLICK: When We Knew We Were Feminists. To learn more bringing her to your campus about go here.

Vanessa Valenti is New York-born and based blogger, activist, speaker and online strategist. She is the Managing Editor and a co-founder of Feministing. For the last decade, Vanessa has been involved with grassroots initiatives, major national organizations, political campaigns and academic institutions with the goal of evangelizing online activism and social media as a tool for social change. She has spoken at universities, colleges, conferences and organizations across the country and internationally about Feministing’s journey and how the internet and blogs have shifted the landscape for the feminist movement. For more information about Vanessa’s work and for speaking requests, you can visit her website.

Chloe Angyal joined the Feministing team in August 2009 and has been an Editor since May 2011. She blogs mostly about gender, sex, politics, pop culture and body image. Her freelance writing, which has been published in The Atlantic, The Guardian, Slate, Salon, GOOD Magazine and The Christian Science Monitor, covers a range of topics, including sexual assault prevention, women in politics and reproductive rights. Chloe is a Ph.D candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Her academic work focuses on Hollywood romantic comedies; she is currently writing her doctoral thesis about how the genre depicts gender, sex and love, and is working on a book on the same subject. Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Chloe moved to the US in 2005 and to New York City in 2009. In her spare time, she reads, runs, listens to truly terrible pop music, and preaches the gospel of Tim Tams.

Jos Truitt is a Boston native and recent transplant to San Francisco. She joined the Feministing team in July 2009 and became an Editor in August 2011. She blogs about a range of topics including transgender issues and abortion access. Jos first got involved with organizing when she led a walk out against the Iraq war at her high school. She was introduced to the reproductive justice movement while at Hampshire College, where she was the Student Conference Coordinator for the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program’s annual reproductive justice conference. She has worked on the National Abortion Federation’s hotline, was a Field Organizer at Choice USA, and has volunteered as a Pro-Choice Clinic Escort. Jos has also written for Bilerico, RH Reality Check, and Metro Weekly. She has spoken and trained at numerous national conferences and college campuses about trans issues, reproductive justice, blogging, feminism, and grassroots organizing. Jos is currently pursuing an MFA in Printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute.