Jennifer Baumgardner

Jennifer Baumgardner (born 1970) is an author, filmmaker, and third-wave feminist activist. Baumgardner grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and attended Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, graduating in 1992. While at Lawrence University she helped organize “Guerrilla Theater,” a feminist group on campus, and started an alternative newspaper called The Other that focused on issues of women’s liberation. She moved to New York City after graduation and in 1993 began working as an unpaid intern for Ms. Magazine. By 1997 she had become the youngest editor at Ms. Magazine. While working at Ms. Magazine Baumgardner fell in love with a fellow woman intern by the name of Anastasia. They broke up in 1996, but the relationship inspired her to...