Sarah Austin (journalist)
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Sarah Austin at South By Southwest 2010
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Sarah Maria Austin c. 1986 (age 30–31) Rogers, Arkansas |
| Other names | Sarah Meyers |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Known for | Lifecasting, video journalism |
| Website | www |
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| Web alias(es) | Pop17 |
Logo used between 2008-2009; 2012-present;
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| Hosted by | Sarah Austin |
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| Genre | Technology culture news |
| Language | English |
| Picture format | HDTV |
| Debut | 1 April 2008 |
| Provider | mevio, YouTube, Justin.tv, Livestream |
| Website | pop17 |
Sarah Maria Austin (born c. 1986 in Rogers, Arkansas; formerly known by the stage name Sarah Meyers) is an American Internet personality and entrepreneur. She is the CEO and founder of Broad Listening, an artificial emotional intelligence agent, and the chairperson of the board of directors at Coding FTW, a nonprofit organization that promotes diversity and equal rights in the technology sector through education.
Austin produced the web series Party Crashers, where she crashed tech parties, before being selected to lifecast for the Justin.tv test runs. She later went to produce Pop17, a web series documenting Internet culture. She was also a cast member of the Bravo! reality series, Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.
As a young child, Austin moved with parents from Rogers, Arkansas to Tiburon, California. In the ninth grade, Austin joined a leadership development and mentorship program called Summer Search. While in Summer Search, she studied New Media at Stanford University and also attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. In 2004, she graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California.
Upon returning to California, Austin attended film and broadcast classes at San Francisco State University. later to relocate to Parsons The New School for Design in New York City. In 2010, she was a Dominican University of California business management student.
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