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Saturday Night Live, Women's Rights Activist

Sasheer Zamata Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000

Saturday Night Live, Women's Rights Activist

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Speaking Fee:
$10,000 to $20,000

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Sasheer Zamata Speaker Profile: At A Glance

Actress and comedian who was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from January 18, 2014 until May 20, 2017. She also has served as a celebrity ambassador for the ACLU and in 2015 began work with the Women's Rights Project. The ACLU Women's Right's project seeks to break down gender biases and "ensure equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence." She has spoken out on gender discrimination in the U.S. today, and has advocated for equal rights among women.

Sasheer Zamata is a comedian, actress and writer. She was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and This American Life. She serves as ACLU's Celebrity Ambassador for Women's Rights. She hosts a live variety show called Sasheer Zamata Party Time, and you can watch her standup special Pizza Mind on Amazon Prime and Starz, and listen to it on iTunes and Spotify. She's been listed in Time Out New York's Top 10 Funniest Women in NYC, Brooklyn Magazine's 50 Funniest People in Brooklyn, and Complex Magazine's Women in Comedy You Should Be Paying Attention to Right Now. She co-created and co-starred in the webseries Pursuit of Sexiness, which was named one of the Top 10 Web Series of 2013 by Variety, and part of Glamour's 7 Web Series We Can't Stop Watching in 2015. She's performed at Clusterfest, Just for Laughs (Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver), Bonnaroo, SXSW, Moontower Comedy Festival, Outside Lands, SF Sketchfest, Vodafone Festival, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, New York Comedy Festival, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Limestone Comedy Festival, Woodstock Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Great American Comedy Festival, and Women in Comedy Festival. And she's happy you came here to see her.
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