Stephanie Pakrul
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Stephanie Pakrul (born September 9, 1982) is better known on the internet as StephTheGeek. Currently living in Oakland, California, she is a former resident of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She studied as an information technology student at Ryerson University, also in Toronto. She began developing webpages at around the age of 15 and started her personal site a few years later, in 2001, as a small personal website. The site has since become a blog and personal playground, sharing every detail of her life, including music, relationships, gadgetry, and sexuality.
Stephanie has been featured on TechTV, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Street Cents, MTV Live, and in Young Entrepreneur, CosmoGirl, and several newspapers. Her interests include increasing efficiency in everyday life through innovative uses of technology, adult industries and consumer rights.
She was also a member of Industry Canada's SchoolNet Youth Advisory Board.
[edit] Speaking engagements
- "Show Me Your Boobs!" and Other Subtleties of Building a Highly Interactive Personal Community Notacon April 8-10, 2005
[edit] Reviews
- Picks of the Past: Stephanie Pakrul by Estrogenius
- The Eyeopener Online
- Review by Lorraine Smith of The F Word : Contemporary UK Feminism
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Stephanie Pakrul at the Internet Movie Database
- Start a biz, be a boss! featured in Career World, November-December, 2003
- Cash in With a Web Site Entrepreneur, October 2002
- Emperor of the North Early history of Stephanie circa 2001
