Casey McKinnon
Casey McKinnon is an actress, producer and pioneer in the new media field who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has created and appeared on three popular internet TV shows: Galacticast; A Comicbook Orange and Kitkast.
Her work has been documented in The Hollywood Reporter, BBC News, Rolling Stone Magazine and The Guardian, among others. Her work on Galacticast has also garnered five Vloggie awards and three Parsec nominations. She is commonly referred to as an internet celebrity and has won recognition worldwide as a “sexy geek”.
McKinnon graduated from McGill University in East Asian Studies and worked as a diplomat’s assistant before founding new media production company 8Bit Brownies Inc. in November 2006 with her partner Rudy Jahchan. In addition to producing shows, she often shares her expertise of web video by speaking at various conferences and writing a column for The Guardian.