My Role: I was the Executive Producer of this Spotify original show during seasons 3 and 4. Under my direction, the show won two NAACP Image Awards in season 3, and garnered three total nominations across both seasons that I was EP. I revamped the show which led to an increase in female listenership and engagement, and integral to building the Unbothered Podcast Network.
Jemele Hill shares her unbothered, nuanced opinions on news, pop culture, politics, and sports and conducts intimate interviews with some of the biggest names and most thought-provoking contributors to culture, music, and entertainment.
My Role: As executive producer and head of content, I conceived, developed, and led the execution of this Spotify original show. I created Sanctified to foster community for modern-day Black women — churched, unchurched, or somewhere in-between — looking for a podcast that covers faith and contemporary culture, while tackling taboo issues.
Sanctified is the littest church service where hot girls and holiness align.
The Story: An interview with the longest-serving female Black Panther Party leader, former political prisoner, and activist Ericka Huggins.
My Role: I conducted the interview which included anecdotes about the Oakland Community School she led (and where Maya Angelou and James Baldwin visited), plus discussions about sisterhood, sexism, abolishing prisons, and meditation.
The Project: A collection of 30 stories from organizers, political prisoners, scholars, and advocates — all of which point to the crucial conclusion that policing and prisons do not serve as catch-all solutions for the issues and people the state deems social problems. “Instead, we need to invest in a future that puts justice and the needs of the community first. A future that, as Colin Kaepernick himself says in his introductory essay, makes us safer, healthier, and truly free.”
My Role: I was a co-editor, editing the work of Bree Newsome, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Kiese Laymon, among others.
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The Project: A a four-part project celebrating the genius and glory of Black women in music — anchored by our definitive list of the 100 most iconic albums by African American women.
My Role: I was the project lead for the three-month execution of this package.
I planned, assigned, and edited all stories and the list of albums.
I secured esteemed panelists — including MC Lyte and Danyel Smith — and managed 10 staff members and one factchecker.
I edited: 13,000 words total.
I worked in collaboration with art/design, product/engineering, social/audience development, marketing, and PR teams.
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The Story: With her new book ‘Make Me Rain,’ the 77-year-old outspoken poet adds to her revolutionary body of work.
My Role: I conducted the interview with the revolutionary poet about her latest work, how she defines herself, her $14 champagne ritual, and how Toni Morrison helped her process grief.
The Story: A reported feature on a workplace phenomenon.
My Role: I commissioned and edited this story, and advised the audience development team on how to promote the story.
Read the story here.
The Story: The pioneering writer of ‘When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost’ says you can’t just write about your feminism. You must also live it.
My Role: I conducted the interview with the writer behind the path-breaking author. We talked about her relationship with hip-hop feminism today, the male reactions to “WAP,” and how she raised her son to embrace feminism.
For ZORA Mag
The Project: A four-part series that brings into focus the pressures — and peace — of productivity and performance for our current times. This bundle of stories delivers a look at women who are — and were — going through burnout. It provides strategies from experts to not only help you find calm in your frenzied life, but also encourages you to put yourself first.
Introduction written by me. Britni Danielle examines the fatigue of performance burnout and shares advice for when you feel the need to be “on” all the time. Erika Stallings reports on the chronic stress of showing up as superwoman for everyone before showing up for yourself. Janelle Harris Dixon will give us a look into the life of a woman who finds peace in productivity and thrives in chaotic times.
My Role: I was the project lead, planning and executing this cross-department collaboration. Assigned and edited all features.
For ZORA Mag
The Project: An interactive collection of 22 stories and a poem honoring Black Trans Women.
My Role: I was the project lead for the three-month execution of this package.
I planned and assigned 19 profiles, 2 features, an essay, and a poem
I managed 14 writers, 8 staff members, 4 factcheckers, 2 advisors
I edited: 25,000 words total
Worked in collaboration with art/design, product/engineering, social/audience development, marketing, and PR teams
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For ZORA Mag
The Story: Beyond the nails, one-legged tracksuits, and world records, Florence Griffith Joyner set the stage for women to build million-dollar brands
My Role: I pitched, assigned, and edited the story, with art by Monica Ahanonu.
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The Story: The acclaimed poet, author, and organizer reflects on writing, hoops, and relationships.
My Role: I conducted the interview which included details about childhood memories, advice on how to heal from a friendship breakup, and her next steps for a screen adaptation of Chlorine Sky.
For ZORA Mag
The Project: A Q&A series, Doing it My Way
My Role: I conceived, developed, and edited Doing It My Way, a candid ZORA Q&A series with newsmakers and changemakers in our community who are charting their own paths with conviction and defying convention.
Read the Q&As here.
For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Project: A six-part fashion franchise that goes inside the closets of athletes who share how they get game-day ready. The multi-platform series includes video, gifs and original photography by Sasha Maslov, Ryan Enn Hughes, Amy Lombard, Andrew Vanasse and Matt Edge.
My Role: I created, executed and edited the entire series. I also worked with sales and marketing teams to best position the franchise for sponsorship.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Stacked with four DI players, including the reigning WNBA MVP, two aspiring doctors and a broadcaster-in-the-making, the Ogwumike sisters are ready to take on anything and anyone—even the Ball family.
My Role: I secured access to the family for interviews and a video shoot, project managed and edited this multi-platform text + video story.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Move over Allyson Felix and Usain Bolt. Meet Sydney McLaughlin. She skipped going pro (and a big payday) for now—but it's not slowing her down from becoming the new face of track and field.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform story with original photography by Luke Sharrett.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Behind the scenes of how a too-bizarre-to-be-true trip to Lithuania exposed the impossible teenage life of LaMelo Ball as a subplot in his dad's reality-show basketball empire.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform text + video story which required three and a half weeks of reporting in Lithuania by the writer. First-place winner for best online sports feature at the 2019 Los Angeles Press Club Annual Journalism Awards and second-place winner in the 2018 Pro Basketball Writer’s Association Writing Contest.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Meet The Players On This All-Girls Travel Squad Who Have Bigger Dreams Than Youth Baseball—They Want To Become MLB Stars.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform text + video story. The story picked up notable Sports Writing of 2017 honors in Best American Sports Writing anthology.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Win a chip? Yup. Posterize Porzingis? Bet. Date Jennifer Aniston? Shoot your shot, Luka. The phenom from Slovenia gives us a look into his future.
My Role: I project managed and edited this cross-department collaborative effort. I shepherded the team—composed of members of the design, video, graphics and social departments—to pull together Doncic’s career, life and love ambitions into a vibrant made-for-mobile text + motion-graphic experience about his future. I secured and negotiated access (reporting and video/photo shoot happened in Spain).
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: On the eve of the NBA season, Portland’s star guard drops an album and a whole lotta knowledge on how he became ‘the best hooper to ever rap.’ Plus an exclusive music video in collaboration with B/R Mag.
My Role: My project management and leadership included negotiating access, being the primary liaison between B/R Mag and the athlete’s agents and publicist, helping to shape the treatment for the music video, assisting with production of both video and photo shoots (the latter by Jake Michaels) in Portland, editing copy and bridging gaps between six cross-department functions.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Project: A definitive list of the most influential people in sports culture—athletes and celebrities who are doing the damn thing right now. We picked 50 influencers making power moves.
My Role: I helped lead the conceptualization of the entire package, coached the creative lead—to ensure the team was well-guided, supported and empowered with autonomy, while exploring experimentation and meeting project goals—in addition to editing copy. The result? The biggest, boldest and best collaborative effort that B/R has produced, that touched nearly ever part of the company.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Julius Randle and D’Angelo Russell show off their flair for fashion on the streets of L.A.
My Role: My project management and leadership included negotiating access, being the primary liaison between B/R Mag and the athletes’ publicist, assisting with production of both video and photo shoots (by The Collaborationist) in L.A., editing copy and bridging gaps between six cross-department functions.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Inside the past, present and future of this country's most inconvenient truth, by way of the most controversial black man in America.
My Role: I co-edited this tour de force story, with art by Jeremy Biggers, which won a Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Award and the Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting. The story was also a finalist for a National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: An exclusive B/R Mag issue on the future of basketball.
My Role: I co-created, project managed, executed and edited each installment of this multi-platform text + video + original photography (by Brian Finke and Amy Lombard) experience.
Trae Young Is Puttin’ In Work. Click here to read.
DeAndre Ayton Knows He’s Number One. Click here to read.
You Need To Know Asia Durr. Click here to read and watch.
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Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: A history-making shutout in the Little League World Series made her a bonafide star. Now, the beloved pitcher is getting buckets as a D-I hopeful.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform text + video story with original photography by Rob Tringali. Winner of U.S Basketball Writers Association Best Writing Contest in 2017.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Yes, he's straight outta Compton. But there's more to know about the Toronto Raptors superstar guard. His playlist can tell you.
My Role: I project managed and co-edited this multi-platform text story with original photography by Ryan Enn Hughes.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Man on an island? Nah. Most confident man in the NBA? Bet. Don't ask him? C'mon now—guy's got takes for days!
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform story with original photography by Sasha Maslov.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: A football team’s run-in with the rapper revealed. Hours before the rap legend was shot and killed in Vegas, a school trip became a chance encounter in the desert—and a brush with Suge Knight's strapped security mob.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform story with art by Chris Kindred.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag
The Story: Devin Booker and Tyler Ulis give B/R Mag an exclusive look inside their young, rich and surprisingly laid-back lives.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform text story with original photography by Caitlin O’Hara.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Duke's superstar on the rise is a lot of good things—All-American combo stud, March Madness hero in the making, potential No. 1 draft pick—but he's wishin' on much more. Meet the MC who will be MVP.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform text + video story with original photography by Matthew Salacuse.
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For Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag.
The Story: Hold up—forget LeBron 2.0. It's take two for the Sixers' wunderkind, and he ain't drinking, he ain't stressing—he's just flexin' on the entire NBA. Now give him the damn ball already.
My Role: I project managed and edited this multi-platform text story with original photography by Elizabeth Weinberg.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: First Lady Michelle Obama teams up with star athletes to unveil the second phase of her Let’s Move! campaign, focused on keeping kids healthy and happy.
My Role: I negotiated and secured a White House interview between a Sports Illustrated Kids’ kid reporter and Michelle Obama, reported on the Let's Move! Active Schools campaign in Chicago, and helped produce the cover photo shoot with Mrs. Obama, Serena Williams, Colin Kaepernick, Gabby Douglas, Allyson Felix, Paul Rodriguez and 10 Chicago students.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Mo’ne was named the SIK Sports Kid of the Year after her historic and impactful Little League run in 2014.
My Role: I negotiated and secured access to Mo’ne for the cover story and photo shoot with her teammates and wrote the story. The SIK Sports Kids of the Year franchise won the 2015 Cynopsis Media award for best promotional campaign.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Misty Copeland is unapologetically changing the way we think about ballet dancers. Take note.
My Role: I negotiated and secured access to Misty and reported and wrote the story.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: SIK tapped Fitzgerald to be the cover star for a human interest package dedicated to athlete who give back.
My Role: I negotiated and secured access to Fitzgerald for a photo shoot and interview, which I conducted in Arizona.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Hammon is ready to coach in the NBA.
My Role: I interviewed Hammon twice.
Click here to read our 2014 interview in NYC and here for our May 2015 interview in San Antonio.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Cover star Russell Wilson opened up to SIK about the childhood naysayers who said his size who hinder his success as a pro QB.
My Role: I interviewed Wilson for the cover story in Seattle. I also wrote a profile on Wilson for Sports Illustrated Present’s Seattle Seahawks special issue, published after the 2014 Super Bowl.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Meet Monica Abbott, the first woman in U.S. team sports to sign a $1 million contract.
My Role: I negotiated and secured access to Abbott for an interview in Houston and wrote the story.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: The undersized floor general has never let his lack of size hold him back.
My Role: I secured access for an interview with Paul and wrote the cover story.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: "She's a freshman everywhere but the court," Cal coach Lindsay Gottliebsays. "It's funny when Kristine doesn't know where she's going [around campus]. But she's a super talented basketball player. When that ball goes up, that's when you forget she is a freshman."
My Role: I secured access to Anigwe for an interview and wrote the story.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Westbrook shares some of his fondest summer memories with SI KIDS.
My Role: I negotiated and secured access for a photo shoot and interview in OKC.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: "Playing offense was cool. But I love being on defense because, every single play, I get to create my own destiny," Watt says. "I get to decide how each play ends for me."
My Role: I secured access for an interview and wrote the story. I also cultivated a relationship with Texans PR that led to access to Watt for a cover photo shoot two years later.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Versatile big Man Karl-Anthony Towns is ready for primetime.
My Role: I secured and negotiated access to Towns twice—for an interview on the UK campus in 2015 (click here to read) and for an interview and cover photo/video shoot that I helped produce in 2016 (watch here).
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For Sports Illustrated Kids magazine.
The Story: Long before his rise in the NBA, George was a quiet kid who grew up in Palmdale, California. He spoke with SI KIDS about battling his sister in basketball, the time he played a game in jean shorts, and mastering chess.
My Role: I secured access for an interview.
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The Story: SI KIDS asked DiMeglio to share what it's like to be the only girl leading a high school team on the gridiron.
My Role: I pitched the story and conducted the interview.
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For Sports Illustrated Kids.
The Story: "When he gets a pitch he can hit, he makes hard contact. At any time, he can hit the ball out of the yard," Marlins hitting coach Frank Menechino says. "His strength is incredible. It's like watching a superhero with a bat."
My Role: I secured access to Stanton and wrote the story.
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For Seventeen magazine.
The Story: At home with Mo’ne, talking about her favorite Kardashian, style and fame. Photos by Chris Eckert.
My Role: I interviewed Mo’ne and wrote the story.
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A sampling of my print and digital writing as a staff reporter at People:
Medical Miracle "I'm Just a Normal Boy"
A Teen's Heartfelt Mission
Rihanna Says Jay-Z Screens Her Suitors
Shopaholics No More
World’s Richest Kids
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A sampling of my writing as a freelance writer for Essence’s print and digital platforms, and my work as the research editor for the first-ever Essence Hot Hair issue:
Hot Hair: Celebs With Super Natural Dos
Trainer Jeanette Jenkins On Holiday Fitness Tips
Charlie Wilson On Changing His Life After Drugs
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