Harlem at heart.
I am known for my writing, my Harlem salons and my idea hacks. In fact, my weekly essays to friends, my belle-lettres, landed me my first television writing job!
My original goal for living in New York was to become a magazine editor-publisher, like Clay Felker, but instead I cut my professional teeth as an aide to former president Bill Clinton. I managed his disaster relief efforts, engagement with Harlem, and his speeches and correspondence. The latter responsibility proved to be my favorite. I wrote a weekly essay for ten years about chasing guys, lines at clubs and the socialite struggle life. It's now written monthly. I love being featured on a provocative panel, and have spoken at Austin Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival, and Urbanworld in my previous role as the face of the WGA East for indie film and emerging television writer engagement. Because of that, I ran the Made in NY Writers Room and created the NY Screenwriter Workshop with FilmNation.
The most satisfying description I have heard of myself is that I am the perfect mix of irreverence, debauchery and sarcasm.
I am a writer.
Most accurately, I am a deipnosophist. My voice sounds like Lenny Bruce and Diana Ross had a baby. I manage peak racial frustration by rewatching 12 Years A Slave. I've seen it 12 times. I find the words "piggyback" and "blog" to be incredibly problematic. My three historical crushes are Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and Alexander Hamilton, in that order, and they influence my Harlem strolling routes. I'm a typical Sagittarius. The three great loves of my life are my grandmother, Harlem and Wellesley. It doesn't make sense to connect on LinkedIn if I can't speak to whether or not you work well with others. No one notices that I haven't been on Facebook in years.
Currently, I am writing for television in Los Angeles.
The illustration is of me (first!) and my muses (Lucille Ball, Michael Jackson, Lorraine Hansberry and Jim Henson) dragging as characters from Alice in Wonderland. Portrait commissioned in 2017 from Georgina Chávez.
Read Me.
Sometimes people say they want to read my next essay. Usually it's from my email to your email, because we spoke about it. But since I write for people I have never met professionally, I am doing the same with my personal writing. I write for adults.
Contact
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Jenna Bond
