Member Profile
Jamie Broadnax
- Biography:
- Jamie Broadnax graduated with a Master's Degree in Film and a Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism. She reports on entertainment news, writes movie and TV reviews, and has interviewed several entertainers for her publication Black Girl Nerds. She's covered some of the greatest entertainers from cultural tastemaker Ta-Nehisi Coates to billionaire media mogul Oprah Winfrey. Outside of BGN, Jamie has written for Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, Vox, Vulture, IGN, Essence Magazine, The Lily (The Washington Post) and SYFY. She is the executive producer and host of the Black Girl Nerds podcast, also known as the BGN Podcast. She is known best from her social media Twitter presence on @blackgirlnerds and was sited by Shonda Rhimes in Marie Claire Magazine as Jamie's @blackgirlnerds handle being one of her favorite Twitter accounts. She was accredited by MSNBC's The Grio Top 100 list for being an online community builder in the tech space. Jamie also was the host of Rewire.com's radio series "Get It Right". A podcast that fuses reproductive issues with social justice topics. Jamie frequently travels to report news on movie set visits and press junkets and she is an active member of the Black Film Critics Circle. Jamie is the founder and CEO of the online publication Black Girl Nerds (www.blackgirlnerds.com), a website focused on television, film, entertainment news, lifestyle topics presenting the intersection of geek culture and Black feminism. She tweets @JamieBroadnax.