Jennifer Baumgardner

New York, New York, United States

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Feminist activist, author, and speaker

Jennifer Baumgardner is a filmmaker, activist, writer, and lecturer whose work explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women’s power. After five years as an editor at the feminist magazineMs.(1993-1997), Jennifer began writing investigative pieces for Harper’s and The Nation, <a href="http://www.npr.org/search/index.php?searchinput=jennifer+baumgardner">commentaries</a> for NPR’s All Things Considered, and contributing to magazines such as Real Simple, Glamour, Redbook, Babble, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue,Marie Claire, and Elle. She created and produced the award-winning documentary "I Had an Abortion" in 2005 and will be releasing "It Was Rape," a second film, in fall 2012. Jennifer and her work has been featured in venues from The Oprah Winfrey Show to NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and BBC News Hour to Bitch Magazine. She has keynoted at more than 250 universities, organizations, and conferences, including the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, Amherst College, Take Back The Night UW-Madison, and the New Jersey Women and Gender Studies Consortium. In 2008, she became Writer-in-Residence at The New School, where she taught until 2012. Jennifer is the author of five books: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374531080/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374531080&linkCode=as2&tag=jenbauprothef-20">Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics</a> (FSG, 2007, which was nominated for a Lambda Award), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YX0EDO/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002YX0EDO&linkCode=as2&tag=jenbauprothef-20">Abortion and Life</a> (Akashic, 2008), and the essay collection <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580053602/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1580053602&linkCode=as2&tag=jenbauprothef-20">F ‘em! Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls</a> (Seal, 2011), as well as the best-selling books about feminism written with Amy Richards—<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374532303/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374532303&linkCode=as2&tag=jenbauprothef-20">Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future</a> (FSG, 2000) and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374528659/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0374528659&linkCode=as2&tag=jenbauprothef-20">Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism</a> (FSG, 2005). In 2002, Jennifer and Amy founded Soapbox, Inc., a speakers' bureau that also produces week-long Feminist Camps and Intensives, and seeks to connect people hungry for feminism with resources and with one another. In 2003, the Commonwealth Club of California honored her in their centennial year as a “Visionary for the 21st Century,” commenting that “in her role as author and activist, [Jennifer has] permanently changed the way people think about feminism…and will shape the next 100 years of politics and culture.” Among other honors, she is a <a href="http://jezebel.com/5920640/the-jezebel-25-kick+ass-and-amazing-women-we-love/gallery/11">Jezebel 25</a>, a Feminist Press 40 Under 40, and a recipient of the Stand Up for Reproductive Justice Award from the Feminist Women's Health Center of Atlanta. Originally from Fargo, North Dakota, Jennifer lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

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