Reniqua Allen

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Reniqua Allen writes and produces on issues surrounding race, class, social mobility and popular culture. 

Currently she is working as a producer for the second season of The United States of Anxiety and writing a book "It Was All A Dream? Black Millennials, Mobility and Migration" for Nation Books/Hachette. She just finished a stint as a casting producer for MTV’s longest running docu-series, True Life, about young people and the 2016 presidential election. Previously, she was a field producer on the documentary film Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class that aired on PBS this spring. 

Reniqua has worked on a range of shows for PBS, including Moyers & Company, The Bill Moyers Journal, and On Faith & Reason, and also as an archival producer for Sundance-nominated films like Hot Coffee (HBO) and We’re Not Broke. She got her start in broadcasting working in live news for MSNBC and the Fox News Channel. She has published a range of essays and articles for outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Quartz, Congressional Quarterly, Uptown, The San Francisco Chronicle, Transition and Teen Vogue. She’s also held fellowships with the New America Foundation and the think tank Demos.

Reniqua has completed coursework for a PhD in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and is working on a dissertation that will look at representations of the black middle class on television in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. She has a BA in journalism and an MA in political science from American University.