Joy-Ann M. Lomena-Reid (née Lomena; born December 8, 1968) is an American progressive political commentator and television host.

[9] She was raised mostly in Denver, Colorado, until the age of 17, when her mother died of breast cancer[5] and she moved to Flatbush, Brooklyn, to live with an aunt.

[12] Reid began her journalism career in 1997, leaving New York and her job at a business consulting firm to begin working in South Florida for a WSVN Channel 7 morning show.

[13] She left journalism in 2003 to work with the group America Coming Together to oppose the Iraq War and President George W. Bush.

One for her segment where a pastor is pulled to safety at the Charlottesville white nationalist march, for Reid's reporting on the damage caused by the hurricanes to the US Virgin Islands and lastly for the segment that won her an award Tragedy of 'Time: The Kalief Browder Story' where Reid sat down with Kalief's brother Deion Browder and filmmaker Julia Mason.

[28] The second batch of posts prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award,[32] and The Daily Beast to suspend future columns from her.

According to The Washington Post, Reid's controversial remarks included encouraging her readers to watch the "truther" conspiracy-theory film Loose Change and saying of Israel "God is not a real estate broker.

"[37][38] Reid claimed Jewish people spend half a million dollars on their bar and bat mitzvah celebrations.

[41] Another controversial post, from 2007, contained a photoshopped image of Senator John McCain's face superimposed on the body of Seung-Hui Cho, who perpetrated the Virginia Tech shooting.

"[37] On the September 1, 2020 episode of The ReidOut, Reid criticized President Donald Trump's unwillingness to condemn Kyle Rittenhouse.

[44] The Southern Poverty Law Center and Muslim Advocates, both civil rights organizations, and representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib criticized Reid's remarks as Islamophobic and called for an apology.

[44] Conversely, commentator Jennifer Rubin defended Reid, arguing she had merely highlighted a double standard in the media without endorsing it.