Stephanie Harvey

Stephanie Harvey (born 19 April 1986), also known by her in-game name missharvey, is a Canadian video game developer and retired professional gamer.

[10] Harvey began her professional gaming career playing Counter-Strike 1.5 in 2003; a year later, she created the team Canadian Divas.

[13] In 2011 Harvey founded a new Counter-Strike team, UBINITED, sponsored by her employer Ubisoft, which went on to win the ESCW 2011 Women's event.

She has highlighted that less than 5% of professional gamers are women, that there is a significant gender disparity in player's earnings, and that women in gaming face routine verbal abuse and sexual harassment:[5] When I started gaming I was really a pioneer, which I didn’t know at the time, and it was not easy... Over the Internet, people don’t have to deal with the repercussions of insulting someone else.

[5][13] After winning Season Three of Canada's Smartest Person in December 2016, Harvey selected Opération Enfant Soleil, a Quebec charity supporting pediatrics in the province, as the recipient of the $20,000 in prize money.

In 2020, Harvey launched a digital citizenship brand Élevey, focused on promoting awareness about cyberaddiction, cybersecurity and cybercitizenship.