Jamie Broadnax (born April 24, 1980) is an American film critic, podcaster, and writer, known for founding[2] and being editor-in-chief and CEO of the Black Girl Nerds community.
[11] She has been described as "one of the biggest up-and-coming names in black-nerd pop culture" (by The Root's Jason Johnson[3]) and as "one of the most important makers of 2016" (by Paste's Shannon M. Houston[4]).
[12] She has also co-hosted the Misty Knight's Uninformed Afro podcast about black superheroines,[13] and in April 2017, she co-launched the #NoConfederate hashtag campaign in response to HBO's plan to produce a series – Confederate – with the premise "What if the Confederacy never lost?".
Black Girl Nerds initially started as a Blogspot journal,[21] where Broadnax wrote about various topics, including her own online dating experiences.
[23] The community gradually became more mainstream, in particular after a shout-out by Shonda Rhimes in the September 2014 issue of Marie Claire.