Reniqua Allen-Lamphere

Reniqua Allen-Lamphere is a journalist who produces and writes for various outlets on issues of race, opportunity, politics and popular culture. Currently, she is developing a film on African Americans and art for Firelight Films and directing a documentary feature about Black families, fertility, and the climate crisis for public television. She is also a consulting producer for the feature film The Debutantes, about the revival of a Black debutante ball in the Rust Belt which recently debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. Previously she was a Co-Executive Producer on BlackPop (E!), a four-part series about Black America and popular culture that she developed for NBC News Studios and a Senior Producer for The Problem with Jon Stewart (Apple TV+). She is also currently working on two books, Fertility Noir for Penguin Random House on Black families and their fertility struggles and another about Black popular culture and the American Dream for Columbia University Press. Her first book, It Was All A Dream was published by Hachette in 2019. Reniqua has a Ph.D in American Studies from Rutgers University.