Keidra Chaney works as a writer and strategist for Cultural Pulse, a project of the Culture Lab that connects progressive organizers with fan communities and tools for pop culture storytelling for social change. She is the also co-founder and publisher of pop culture website The Learned Fangirl which focuses on amplifying marginalized voices in fandom scholarship and has have spoken about media and pop culture at Chicago Public Radio, WGN and at conferences including BlogHer and EMP Pop Conference.