An award-winning media executive and author, Amy DuBois Barnett has held senior leadership roles at Paramount, Hearst, Disney, and Time Inc, and has also successfully grown several independently owned media brands. Most recently, she held roles as chief content officer of Outside Inc., senior vice president and general manager of BET digital, and executive vice president and chief content officer of Entertainment Studios/theGrio. Barnett has also won many prestigious awards and garnered national acclaim as the editor-in-chief of Ebony, Teen People (where she became the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the country) and Honey magazines, and as deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar.

Barnett is also a professional public speaker as well as the author of the NAACP Image Award-nominated advice book, Get Yours! How To Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More (Doubleday/Broadway Books). Her short fiction has appeared in several journals and anthologies. Currently, Barnett is finishing a novel set in New York City that draws from her decades of experience in the media, entertainment, and style industries.

A Brown University graduate, Barnett also has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University and a certificate in Fashion Merchandising from Parson’s School of Design. Barnett has lived in 12 cities on three continents and is fluent in French. She has spent most of her adult life in New York City, and currently resides in Los Angeles with her seventeen-year-old son, Max.

Follow Amy at @amyduboisbarnett