Soraya Chemaly

Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning author and activist. As the former executive director of The Representation Project and director and cofounder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, she has long been committed to expanding women’s civic and political participation. As a cultural critic and leading feminist thinker, she writes and speaks about gender, free speech, sexualized violence, technology and media, and the politics of supremacy. Ms. Chemaly has also spearheaded several successful global campaigns challenging corporations to address online hate and harassment, restrictive content moderation and censorship, and institutional biases. She is the author of Rage Becomes Her, The Resilience Myth, and All We Want Is Everything. A prolific writer and speaker, her articles appear in Time, The Verge, The Guardian, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Follow her on her Substack, Unmanned, and on Instagram at @RageBecomesHer, and learn more at SorayaChemaly.com.