Jordannah Elizabeth (born October 16, 1986 in Baltimore, MD[1]) is an American journalist, lecturer,[2] music critic,[3] author[4] and screenwriter.
Elizabeth started her professional writing career by earning bylines in Vice Magazine,[5] Nerve.com[6] and Bitch Media[7] in March 2013.
In October 2013, she was brought on as a regular contributing writer and entertainment reporter for New York Amsterdam News[8] arts and entertainment section where she has conducted high-profile interviews with African American leaders of their fields like producer, Teddy Riley,[9] Walter Williams of The O'Jays[10] and Black Girls Code founder, Kimberly Bryant.
[12] On July 26, 2016, Jordannah made her debut at LA Weekly[13] with an interview with poet, musician and author Saul Williams.
Her rock writing included interviews with Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, Chris Stein of Blondie, Devendra Banhart, Miranda Lee Richards, The Warlocks, Imaad Wasif and Dead Meadow.
She also wrote an intelligent essay on the topic called Dear Men of the Music Industry: You Can Do Better which was published one month after the MeToo Movement broke.
From September 2017 to May 2018, Elizabeth covered MeToo and contributed regularly for Ms. Magazine, her most notable articles being The Intersectionality of Believability, Will 2017 Be the Year of Hollywood's Feminist Reckoning?
In August 2020, she was a participant in the inaugural Florence Price Festival as a panelist on the Race and Gender in Classical Music Criticism in panel.