Jennifer L Pozner

Jennifer L. Pozner is a media critic, media literacy speaker, and founder of the media justice group Women In Media & News. Her book, Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV — the first book to expose how reality TV has functioned as backlash against gender and racial justice — was called “Required reading for every American girl and woman” by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry. She has been published in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Village Voice, Newsweek, Bitch, Ms., The Nation, and Politico, among others, and has appeared as a commentator on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, Comedy Central, Bravo, Al Jazeera English, and in numerous documentaries, including the award-winning "Miss Representation." As a media literacy educator she has conducted keynotes, workshops, and media trainings on gender, race, class, and sexuality in the media throughout the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Turkey, as well as the United Nations, the the Museum of Modern Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. She is the inaugural winner of the “Voice of Women” Award at the 2017 Women’s Choice Awards, which honored her work to “shape the positive portrayal of girls and women in entertainment and media.”