Jamie Broadnax | |
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Born | Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. | April 24, 1980
Occupation | Film critic, writer |
Alma mater |
Norfolk State University (
BA) Regent University ( MA) [1] |
Jamie Broadnax (born April 24, 1980) is an American film critic, podcaster, and writer, known for founding [2] and being editor-in-chief and CEO of the Black Girl Nerds community. [3]
Broadnax, who has a master's degree in Film and Marketing, [4] started her career in film by working on several film shoots in various positions. Broadnax became a film critic, [5] is a member of the Critics Choice Association, [6] and, as a freelancer, has written about films for numerous publications, including HuffPost, [7] the New York Post, [8] Variety, [9] and Vulture. [10]
In 2014, Broadnax was accredited by MSNBC's TheGrio 100. [11] She has been described as "one of the biggest up-and-coming names in black-nerd pop culture" (by The Root's Jason Johnson [3]) and as "one of the most important makers of 2016" (by Paste's Shannon M. Houston [4]). In an October 2015 guest appearance on Melissa Harris-Perry, Broadnax talked about diversity in comics at New York Comic Con. [12] She has also co-hosted the Misty Knight's Uninformed Afro podcast about black superheroines, [13] and in April 2017, she co-launched the #NoConfederate hashtag campaign in response to HBO's plan to produce a series – Confederate – with the premise "What if the Confederacy never lost?". [14] [15]
Broadnax has hosted panel discussions on other multimedia, including the panel at the A Wrinkle in Time (2018) premiere at the El Capitan Theatre and the Sorry to Bother You panel at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. [16]
Mid 2018, after co-founding "Universal FanCon" [17] and running a successful Kickstarter campaign for the convention, [18] Broadnax was caught up in the controversy surrounding the convention being cancelled [19] and she then released a public statement, [20] stepping back temporarily from a leadership role to regroup.
Black Girl Nerds initially started as a Blogspot journal, [21] where Broadnax wrote about various topics, including her own online dating experiences. [22] In 2013, Black Weblog Awards awarded Black Girl Nerds "Best Podcast". [23] The community gradually became more mainstream, in particular after a shout-out by Shonda Rhimes in the September 2014 issue of Marie Claire. [16] In October 2015, HuffPost named Black Girl Nerds one of the leading Black Podcasts. [24] Late 2017, its website had over 200,000 monthly visitors. [21]
Jamie Broadnax | |
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Born | Portsmouth, Virginia, U.S. | April 24, 1980
Occupation | Film critic, writer |
Alma mater |
Norfolk State University (
BA) Regent University ( MA) [1] |
Jamie Broadnax (born April 24, 1980) is an American film critic, podcaster, and writer, known for founding [2] and being editor-in-chief and CEO of the Black Girl Nerds community. [3]
Broadnax, who has a master's degree in Film and Marketing, [4] started her career in film by working on several film shoots in various positions. Broadnax became a film critic, [5] is a member of the Critics Choice Association, [6] and, as a freelancer, has written about films for numerous publications, including HuffPost, [7] the New York Post, [8] Variety, [9] and Vulture. [10]
In 2014, Broadnax was accredited by MSNBC's TheGrio 100. [11] She has been described as "one of the biggest up-and-coming names in black-nerd pop culture" (by The Root's Jason Johnson [3]) and as "one of the most important makers of 2016" (by Paste's Shannon M. Houston [4]). In an October 2015 guest appearance on Melissa Harris-Perry, Broadnax talked about diversity in comics at New York Comic Con. [12] She has also co-hosted the Misty Knight's Uninformed Afro podcast about black superheroines, [13] and in April 2017, she co-launched the #NoConfederate hashtag campaign in response to HBO's plan to produce a series – Confederate – with the premise "What if the Confederacy never lost?". [14] [15]
Broadnax has hosted panel discussions on other multimedia, including the panel at the A Wrinkle in Time (2018) premiere at the El Capitan Theatre and the Sorry to Bother You panel at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. [16]
Mid 2018, after co-founding "Universal FanCon" [17] and running a successful Kickstarter campaign for the convention, [18] Broadnax was caught up in the controversy surrounding the convention being cancelled [19] and she then released a public statement, [20] stepping back temporarily from a leadership role to regroup.
Black Girl Nerds initially started as a Blogspot journal, [21] where Broadnax wrote about various topics, including her own online dating experiences. [22] In 2013, Black Weblog Awards awarded Black Girl Nerds "Best Podcast". [23] The community gradually became more mainstream, in particular after a shout-out by Shonda Rhimes in the September 2014 issue of Marie Claire. [16] In October 2015, HuffPost named Black Girl Nerds one of the leading Black Podcasts. [24] Late 2017, its website had over 200,000 monthly visitors. [21]