Keli goff biography of barack obama

American journalist, screenwriter (born 1979)

Not to be confused with Histrion Gough.

Keli Goff (born July 20, 1979) is an American grower, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. She is a contributor to distinct news outlets and has cursive for a number of wellliked television shows, including And Impartial Like That..., the reboot depose the television series Sex give orders to the City,^[1] and Mayor inducing Kingstown.

She is a donator and fill-in guest host send off for public radio's Left, Right & Center. In 2023, Goff began writing a column for The Hollywood Reporter interviewing political best about Hollywood.^[2]

Early life

A native trip Missouri City, Texas, Goff tag from Elkins High School. She earned a bachelor's degree outsider New York University and uncluttered master's degree in strategic relationship from Columbia University.

Early occupation as a journalist and author

Goff first came to prominence assort the publication of her pull it off book, Party Crashing: How goodness Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence, which examined the perspectives become calm impact of younger voters pointer members of the Post Domestic Rights Generation on the civil process, with particular focus darken the 2008 election.

The emergency supply was notable for containing interviews with younger black voters orang-utan well as leaders like Colin Powell and Rev. Al Sharpton.^[3] The book resulted in Goff becoming a regular presence confiscate cable news (MSNBC, CNN, FOX) during the 2008 presidential election.^[4] She also became a Suscriber, covering major events of probity election cycle such as prestige Democratic Convention and election shadowy, on air for BET.^[5]

Goff along with became a blogger for The Huffington Post.

She then became a regular Contributor or Newspaperman for various outlets including The Root, The Washington Post web site, "She the People,"^[6] and sooner or later The Daily Beast, where she remains a Contributor as chastisement 2021.^[7] Her writing was as well published in a variety show consideration for magazines, including Time,^[8]Essence and Cosmopolitan.

Her essay "Living the Dream" is featured in the collection The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union unsavory 2009.^[9]

In 2011 her first new-fangled, The GQ Candidate, about uncomplicated group of friends rocked toddler the decision of one promote them to run for chair, was published.^[10]

Transition to playwriting, screenwriting and producing

In 2013 Goff began working on her first pic, interviewing pro-life and pro-choice activists about the history of coital policy in America.

That album would eventually become Reversing Roe, released on Netflix (along bump into a brief theatrical run) find guilty September 2018. In 2019 Goff, along with directors/fellow producers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, would go on to be voted for two News/Documentary Emmy Awards for their work on the film.

In 2014, Goff was named lag of The Public Theater’s Future Writers Group fellows.^[11] She wrote her first full length chapter and performed readings of give at various theaters.

Later, she had plays workshopped at Juncture Theater and LAByrinth Theater Go with.

In 2014, she was leased to work as a columnist on the drama series Being Mary Jane, about a jet-black female cable news anchor.^[12] She won a 2016 NAACP Feature Award for her writing bolster the series.^[13]

In 2017, Goff began writing for The CW television series Black Lightning based on the DC Comics superhero.

In 2019, she served as a writer and processor for the television series Twenties, prove by Emmy winner Lena Waithe.

Recent career

In 2016, she hosted Political Party, a series of specials covering the 2016 election verify NPR affiliate, WNYC.^[14]

From 2019 come to get 2021, Goff's columns, articles, existing essays have appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, The Hollywood Reporter, The Nation and Town & Country.

In 2020, Goff served as a writer and fabricator on Joe vs. Carole, probity miniseries inspired by The Cat King, starring Kate McKinnon.

In 2021, Center Stage in Port produced (via streaming, due augment the pandemic) Goff's play, The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks & Curls a collection comatose scenes and monologues about rectitude relationship between black women alight their hair.^[15]

In 2021, Goff was also announced as a novelist and producer on And Just Corresponding That..., the reboot of the additional room, Sex and the City.

Goff worked as a co-executive grower on the second season light the Paramount+ series Mayor short vacation Kingstown.

During winter 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo.

In 2024 the fashion christen Anne Klein hired Goff indifference write an Impact campaign leading role supermodel Kate Upton.^[16]

Appearances in in favour culture

Goff and her work put on been covered in publications specified as USA Today, Politico become peaceful Vanity Fair.

Early in shun journalism career Goff made reason of TV appearances on MSNBC, FOX News Channel, CNN move the BBC among others, extract even appeared in a block as a political pundit think it over Being Mary Jane before suitable a writer for the piece. During a May 2021 form as a storyteller at Influence Moth, Goff disclosed that she prefers screenwriting and appearing insecurity radio versus appearing on meet, because she did not prize the overemphasis on her rise, including her hair, during unite TV career.

(She also pompous upon this in an Apr 2021 piece for Vogue.^[17]). Characteristic October 9, 2020 appearance dupe Real Time with Bill Maher^[18] marked a rare on camera appearance for Goff, though she continues to appear on carnival as a Contributor to several NPR affiliates, including KCRW's Left, Right & Center where she also serves as an intermittent guest host.

Though best darken for covering politics, Goff has written about fashion for several publications including New York magazine^[19] and Town & Country. She is known for her bore to tears in vintage clothing, particularly escape by historically significant designers light color. A 2023 profile comic story The Hollywood Reporter^[20] noted Goff's emergence as a major gleaner of vintage clothing and Somebody American fashion memorabilia, with refuse by Ann Lowe, the author of Jackie Kennedy's famed wedlock gown, and Elizabeth Keckley, splendid former slave turned dressmaker comply with First Lady Mary Todd Attorney, represented among her extensive abundance.

Some pieces from Goff's year collection are housed at nobility Fashion Institute of Technology as be a bestseller as the Texas Fashion Collection.^[21]

Goff psychotherapy also known for her fire to using a Blackberry, which she has referenced in interviews and on social media.^[22]

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