Michele Meek is a director and writer whose films have screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, as well as at festivals, events, and universities across the world. She wrote and directed the short film "Bay Creek Tennis Camp" (2023) which won Best LGBT Film at the Berlin Short Film Festival and was a finalist for the Sweden Film Awards. She has written and directed numerous other award-winning films which have screened at festivals across the world including "Imagine Kolle 37" (2017) and "Red Sneakers" (2008). She also worked as associate producer on the documentary "Salvage" (2019), which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival. She is also the author of the book "Consent Culture and Teen Films: Adolescent Sexuality in US Movies" (2023 Indiana University Press), and she has published several other books including "Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Profiles, Interviews, and Manifestos" (2019 Routledge) and "The Mastermind Failure Club" (2020). She presented a 2018 TEDx talk "Why we're confused about consent-rewriting our stories of seduction" and has written for Ms. Magazine, Script Magazine, Entrepreneur, The Good Men Project, Salon.com, among others.