STEPHANIE ABRAHAM is a nonfiction writer, media critic and public relations practitioner born, raised and based in Los Angeles. She is the senior marketing communications specialist in Strategic Communications at Cal Poly Pomona. Her writings have appeared in numerous publications, such as Al Jazeera, Ms., McSweeney’s and the Arab American journal Mizna, as well as in three feminist anthologies. She was part of the editorial collective who founded the feminist magazine make/shift, and the founding editor of the feminist magazine LOUDmouth. She served for several years as the pop culture correspondent and film critic for the radio and television show Rising Up with Sonali.

Stephanie completed a Master of Professional Writing at the University of Southern California and an M.A. in cultural studies at California State University, Los Angeles. Her master’s thesis, “Hollywood’s Harem Housewife: Orientalism in I Dream of Jeannie,” is part of the Jack G. Shaheen Collection on Arabs in U.S. Film and Television at New York University. She also graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in world arts and cultures.

In 2016, she was featured by the Center for Arab American Philanthropy as an Arab American Who Cares. She’s a proud member of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) and the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).