Laura Bates
Laura Bates is a New York Times bestselling author of 10 books. She's an educator, activist and journalist and has spent the past decade researching misogyny and its intersection with new and emerging technologies as well as working directly with tens of thousands of young people in schools, training teachers and helping governments and education systems grapple with supporting young people to tackle sexism. Her book Men Who Hate Women was the first to bring the issue of the manosphere and extreme online misogyny to public attention and her new book The New Age of Sexism lifts the lid on the extensive but under-reported gendered implications of AI. She has been named one of CNN's 10 Visionary Women, awarded the Women's Media Center Digital Media award and described by Gloria Steinem as "Showing us the path to both intimate and global survival".