Stephanie Harvey

missharvey
Harvey at the 2016 Intel Keynote
Personal information
NameStephanie Harvey
Born (1986-04-19) 19 April 1986 (age 38)[1][2]
NationalityCanadian
Career information
Games
Playing career2003–2019
Team history
2005CheckSix Divas
2006–2010SK Ladies
2011–2015UBINITED
2015–2019CLG Red

Stephanie Harvey (born 19 April 1986), also known by her in-game name missharvey, is a Canadian video game developer and retired professional gamer. She is best known as a Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) player, having won five world championships.[3][4] She formerly played for Counter Logic Gaming Red.[4]

Outside professional gaming, Harvey works as a designer at video game developer Ubisoft Montreal.[3] She is also known for advocating against gender discrimination in professional gaming, co-founding the online community Missclicks to address the under-representation of women in geek and video game culture.[5][6]

In November 2016, she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women.[7] In December 2016, she won the third season of Canada's Smartest Person. In January 2022, Harvey won the second season of Big Brother Célébrités.[8]

Harvey currently works for Counter-Logic Gaming as the Director of Business Development.[9]

In 2021, Harvey received The Esports Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award.[10]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Esguerra was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ CLG [@clgaming] (19 April 2021). "IT'S MISSHARVEY'S BIRTHDAY TODAY. 🎉🥳Happy birthday from the CLG fam @missharvey. #CLGFIGHTING" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. ^ a b Ewalt, David M. (6 January 2014). "30 Under 30: The Brightest Young Stars in Video Games". Forbes. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  4. ^ a b "missharvey". Counter Logic Gaming. Archived from the original on 2 July 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  5. ^ "100 Women 2016: The women challenging sexism in e-sports". BBC News. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  6. ^ White, Catriona (7 December 2016). "Five women who aren't on Wikipedia but should be". BBC Three. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
  7. ^ "BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?". BBC News. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Big Brother Célébrités". noovo (in French). Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Staff". CLG. Retrieved 10 January 2022.
  10. ^ Ashford, Alex (17 August 2021). "Stephanie 'MISSHARVEY' Harvey | Esports Awards". Retrieved 10 January 2022.