Reniqua Allen-Lamphere

Writer. Producer. Journalist.

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 is currently in post-production for NBC News Studios/Westbook Media. Previously she was a Co-Executive Producer on BlackPop, a four-part series about Black America, success, and popular culture that she developed for NBC News Studios on E!/Peacock and a Senior Producer for The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+.

She has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Esquire, The New Republic, Quartz, Buzzfeed, Teen Vogue, Glamour and more, given a Ted Talk and has produced a range of films, video, and radio for PBS, MSNBC, WYNC and HBO. She is currently working on two books, one Fertility Noir for Ballantine Books/Penguin Random House on Black families and their fertility struggles and another about Black popular culture and the American Dream for Columbia University Press.

She has won several awards for her work and has held a range of fellowships from the New America Foundation, Demos, and The Nation. Her first book, It Was All A Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America, about Black millennials and upward mobility was published by Bold Type Books/Hachette in 2019. Reniqua has a BA/MA in Journalism and Political Science from American University and a Ph.D in American Studies from Rutgers University. She is a Jersey girl forever and lives there with her husband, son and daughter.