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Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and YouTuber based in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Edgewood, Kentucky and was raised in the Northern Kentucky area. She attended Berea College in Berea, KY where she graduated in 2010 with a B.A. in Broadcasting. Akilah moved to New York in 2012 to pursue comedy, attending the Upright Citizens Brigade on scholarship. She's gone on to write and star in videos on her own YouTube channel, MTV, Fusion, Vh1, Elite Daily, Oxygen, Allure Magazine, Elle Magazine, and many others. Akilah Hughes is a Sundance Episodic Story Labs Alum for a half-hour comedy series. A book of her essays will be published by Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin in 2019.
