Sandra Jeppesen

Sandra Jeppesen researches with autonomous media and social movements from an intersectional feminist, queer, trans, anti-racist, anti-capitalist & decolonizing perspective. Co-founder of the Media Action Research Group (MARG), she has held the Lakehead University Research Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements (2016-19). She has co-edited Media Activist Research Ethics, with Paola Sartoretto (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2019), authored Transformative Media (UBC Press, 2021), and co-authored, The Capitol Riots: Digital media, disinformation, and democracy under attack. She has a BASc in Sytems Design Engineering, an MA in English and Creative Writing, and a PhD in English literature with a focus on cultural theory and discourse analysis.