Stephanie Pakrul better known as StephTheGeek, is an internet personality. Currently living in Oakland

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

, California

California

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, she is a former resident of Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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. She studied as an information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 student at Ryerson University

Ryerson University

Ryerson University is a public research university located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its urban campus is adjacent to Yonge-Dundas Square located at the busiest intersection in Downtown Toronto. The majority of its buildings are in the blocks northeast of the square in Toronto's Garden...

, also in Toronto

Toronto

Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

. 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

Blog

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 and personal playground, sharing every detail of her life, including music, relationships, gadgetry, and sexuality.

Stephanie has been featured on TechTV

TechTV

TechTV was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San Francisco featuring news and shows about computers, technology, and the Internet. In 2004, it merged with the G4 gaming channel which ultimately dissolved TechTV programming...

, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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's Street Cents

Street Cents

Street Cents is a teen-themed newsmagazine TV series that originally aired on CBC Television between 1989 and 2006. It was one of a few shows focused on consumer and media awareness for young people. The series was created by producer John Nowlan. He cites Britain's Pocket Money as one of the...

, MTV Live

MTV Live (Canada)

Live is a 26 minute flagship show of MTV Canada, on the air since March 21, 2006. The program began as an interactive talkshow where viewers were encouraged to jump into the conversation...

, and in Young Entrepreneur, CosmoGirl

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

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, and several newspapers. Her interests include consumer rights, adult industries and increasing efficiency in everyday life through innovative uses of technology.

She was also a member of Industry Canada

Industry Canada

Industry Canada is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for regional economic development, investment, and innovation/research and development. The department employs 6104 FTEs across Canada....

's SchoolNet

SchoolNet

Canada's SchoolNet was a partnership run by Industry Canada to promote the effective use of information and communications technologies in libraries and schools across the country...

 Youth Advisory Board.

Speaking engagements

• "Show Me Your Boobs!" and Other Subtleties of Building a Highly Interactive Personal Community Notacon
  Notacon
  Notacon is an art and technology conference which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio. The name Notacon became a bacronym for Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference, however use of this was mostly dropped after the first year...
  
  April 8–10, 2005

Reviews

• Picks of the Past: Stephanie Pakrul by Estrogenius
• The Eyeopener Online
• Review by Lorraine Smith of The F Word : Contemporary UK Feminism

External links

• Official website
• Start a biz, be a boss! featured in Career World, November-December, 2003
• Cash in With a Web Site Entrepreneur, October 2002