Cher Martinetti

Cher Martinetti's the founder and managing editor of SYFY WIRE's FANGRRLS, a female-centric genre vertical on SYFY WIRE launched in 2016, and cohosts & executive produces its flagship podcast Strong Female Characters. She is also a pop-culture and entertainment journalist.

Cher's hosted panels at ATX festival, New York Comic Con and San Diego Comic Con, & has interviewed celebrities on the live stage for ECCC, C2E2, & NYCC. Her work has previously appeared on Cracked.com, Death & Taxes, Playboy, and IFC.com. She's appeared on BBC's Doctor Who launch party post-show panel celebrating the first female Doctor in the series, in an interview with the AP on sexual harassment at comic cons, and discussed the importance of layered female representation in media with 41 Action News. She also organized the viral campaign to send the NYC chapter of Girls, Inc to see Wonder Woman and raised $10,000 for their annual college shower.