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Debra Soh
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Nationality | Canadian |
Education | Ryerson University (BSc) York University (MSc, PhD) |
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Doctoral advisor | Keith Schneider |
Debra W. Soh is a Canadian columnist, author, and former academic researcher.
Education and research
Soh holds a Ph.D. degree in psychology from York University in Toronto. During her graduate studies, Soh received the Michael Smith Foreign Research Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and York's Provost Dissertation Scholarship.
Career
Soh has written articles for Quillette, The Globe and Mail, New York magazine, Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She began hosting Quillette's Wrongspeak podcast with Jonathan Kay in May 2018. Soh describes herself as a former feminist who later became disillusioned with the term.
Soh left Wrongspeak at the end of 2018.
On 4 August 2020, Soh published her first book, The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society.
In 2021, Soh started her own podcast, "The Dr. Debra Soh Podcast".
Personal life
Soh is of Malaysian-Chinese descent.