Elisa Camahort

Elisa Camahort is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and consultant best known as the co-founder and COO^[1] of global women’s media company BlogHer and co-author of Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All.^[2]

Elisa Camahort
Pronunciation	"Eh-lee-sa Ca-ma-hort"
Other names	Elisa Camahort Page
Occupation	Entrepreneur/Writer/Speaker/Consultant
Employer	self-employed
Known for	Co-founder of BlogHer and author of Roadmap for Revolutionaries

Career

Elisa Camahort was the co-founder and COO of BlogHer, and later the Chief Community Officer of SHE Media. She is presently the host of the podcast, The Op-Ed Page with Elisa Camahort Page, serves on the board of directors of Our Hen House,^[3] and is also a longtime member of the SXSW Interactive programming committee.^[4]

BlogHer

Camahort and her co-founders, Jory Des Jardins and Lisa Stone, started BlogHer in 2005^[5] as a side project producing a conference for women bloggers, but they quickly formalized BlogHer as a company^[6] after the first event sold out and sparked intense interest. They subsequently bootstrapped the company for two years before raising funding in 2007. Ultimately, BlogHer sold to SHE Media in 2014.^[7]

BlogHer became a national women's media brand with 36 million participating every week, and 15 million with their own blogs.^[8] By 2012, the BlogHer platform attracted nearly 92 million visitors monthly, that in combination with around 3,000 blogs on Pinterest and Facebook, BlogHer had created enough leverage to obtain the eyes of high-end brands, marketers and advertisers.^[9] By the end of 2013, a gross amount of $100 million worth of advertising had been sold by BlogHer to major brands allowing them to in turn pay bloggers 25 million in their share of advertising revenues.^[9]

SHE Media

In October 2015, Camahort became SHE Media's Chief Community Officer.^[10] She left SHE Media in June 2017 and secured a book deal for the book she co-authored, Road Map for Revolutionaries, in the same month.

Published works

Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All

Elisa Camahort and her co-authors Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson wrote and published Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All in September 2018, which provides the resources needed to help you feel safer, more empowered, invested in, and intrinsic to the American experiment. The book is centered around activism and how to support the "greater good" and the "big picture".^[11] It offers advice on how to protest practically and how to stand up to any form of injustice, whether it be local or national in addition to giving a look on how to channel feelings of political or social frustration.^[12] It quickly gained popularity, with The Guardian describing it as, "a handbook for people of all ages and backgrounds who are ready to step into advocacy and activism, but don’t know where to begin."^[13]

Personal life

Since Camahort's youth, her mentor and role model in the business world was her mother.^[14] Additionally, when Camahort was starting out in the business world, her boss, "vice president of marketing", and her "director of product management" were also her mentors in the business world.^[14] Camahort watched her mother climb the corporate ladder, and she wanted to do the same.^[14] Soon, she reached the top and discovered that she enjoyed having "control, and accountability and ownership" of being at the top of her own corporate ladder ^[14] Camahort also likes the idea of people using a social media or blogging in order to shape their life and be able to find support from others.^[15] On August 5, 2016, Kim Kardashian met with Camahort to discuss Kim Kardashian's public lifestyle.^[16]

Honours, decorations, awards, and distinctions

• BlogHer’s co-founders — Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, and Lisa Stone — were listed alongside the likes of Marissa Mayer and Arianna Huffington as the Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 by Fast Company in 2008.^[17]
• In 2008, she and her BlogHer co-founders were picked among the seven most influential people in new media by Katie Couric in Forbes.^[18]
• Camahort was honored as an NCWIT Hero in 2008.^[19]
• In 2013, Elisa Camahort was named one of AlwaysOn’s Power Players in Technology Business Media.^[20]
• She was named a C-Suite Network Social Media Legend in 2015 by The C-Suite Network.^[21]
• In 2016, Camahort was recognized as a Mentor in the 2016 Folio: Top Women in Media awards.^[22]
• Camahort is also described as an influential person in Silicon Valley.^[23]
• Elisa Camahort is recognized as co-founding "the United States’ largest blog network."^[24]

References

1. . BlogHer, via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
2. Camahort Page, Elisa; Gerin, Carolyn; Wilson, Jamia (2018). Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9780399581649.
3. "Our Hen House: Inside the Coop". Our Hen House. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
4. "SXSW Interactive: People". LinkedIn. Retrieved April 28, 2021.
5. . BlogHer, via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 2005-04-14. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
6. "Is BlogHer Still Relevant?". Forbes. February 19, 2010. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
7. Sebastian, Michael (November 3, 2014). "SheKnows Buys BlogHer, Expanding Its Reach Among Women". AdAge. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
8. Jesella, Kara (July 27, 2008). "Blogging's Glass Ceiling". New York Times. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
9. Graham, Jefferson (July 24, 2013). "Women have fueled the rapid rise of BlogHer". USA Today. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
10. "SheKnows Media Launches New Strategic Community-Building Initiative on Eve of #BlogHerFood15 Conference in Chicago, Nov. 6-7". Business Wire. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
11. Tigar, Lindsay (2019-08-29). "How to bring up your activism in an interview". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
12. Library, Daniel Boone Regional. "Literary Links: Make yourself at home in these books". Columbia Daily Tribune. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
13. "Do the work: an anti-racist reading list | Layla F Saad". The Guardian. 2020-06-03. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
14. "Interview with Elisa Camahort Page". National Center for Women & Information Technology. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
15. "Entrepreneurial Success Secrets From Female Bloggers". Business Class: Trends and Insights | American Express. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
16. "Kim Kardashian West talks about her critics, her family and why she posts naked selfies". Los Angeles Times. 2016-08-11. Retrieved 2020-10-28.
17. Chaudhuri, Saabira (November 6, 2008). "Most Influential Women in Web 2.0". Fast Company. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
18. Couric, Katie (November 6, 2008). "Katie Couric Picks The Seven Most Powerful People In New Media". Forbes. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
19. . NCWIT, via Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. June 1, 2009. Archived from the original on 2019-05-11. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
20. "BlogHer, Inc. Co-founder and COO Elisa Camahort Page Named to 2013 AlwaysOn Power Players in Technology Business Media". PRWeb. October 1, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
21. "C-Suite Network Announces Winners of C-Suite Social Media Legends Awards". GlobeNewswire (Press release). December 10, 2015. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
22. "Folio: Top Women in Media 2016". Folio. June 9, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
23. O'Brien, Chris (December 12, 2009). "O'Brien: The Influencers of Silicon Valley". The Mercury News. Retrieved May 27, 2021.
24. Flavelle, Dana (September 30, 2011). "Women bloggers influence millions and want to be paid for it". Toronto Star. Retrieved May 27, 2021.