Angelica Nwandu, Founder and CEO of media company and Instagram’s third most actively-engaged account, ‘The Shade Room‘ for which she was named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in Media
She is a 2014 June and May Sundance Screenwriter Fellow, as well as a 2014 Time Warner Fellow for a script she co-wrote called Night Comes On. Night Comes On is currently streaming on Netflix. She’s the recipient of two BET Awards and TIME Magazine named her “30 Most Influential On the Internet”.
Other accolades include: NBC Black 28, TechCrunch Female Founders Of The Year, Good Housekeeping Magazine’s “Awesome Women Of The Year”, Marie Claire Magazine’s “New Guard – 50 Most Influential Women In America”, Variety’s “50 Most Powerful Women”, and has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine, New York Times, LA Times, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and more.
Angelica is a 2012 graduate of Loyola Marymount University. She developed a passion for writing that has translated into music, journalism, and screenwriting.
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