Jordannah Elizabeth

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.

As a national journalist, Jordannah wrote for a number of Bay Area publications in 2014 such as San Francisco Bay Guardian, East Bay Express[11] SF Weekly and worked as the associate editor of The Deli Magazine San Francisco from 2013 to 2017. Jordannah expanded her reach as a global journalist, writing for MTV Iggy,[12] MTV's (now defunct) world music blog and covering global Women's and Girl's Rights for Ms. Magazine.[13]

From 2015[14] through 2018, Jordannah's work became more focused on literature,[15] jazz criticism[16] and global feminist reporting.[17] Elizabeth has shared panels with esteemed journalists like Greg Tate, Lara Pellegrinelli and Michelle Mercer.[18]

Her bylines have expanded to Chicago Reader,[19] DownBeat,[20] LA Weekly,[21] Hearst Magazines,[22] NPR Music,[23] Popsugar,[24] Condé Nast and other publications. Elizabeth's writing ranges from interviews, music journalism, personal essays, articles on healing in relationships and trauma[25] to literary journalism.[26] Her broad voice has made her an active teacher and lecturer,[27] teaching writing and journalism workshops at institutions like Maryland Institute College of Art and Center for New Music in San Francisco.[28] She has lectured at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, De Montfort University in Leicester, England,[29] and was invited as a guest journalist at Harvard University's Black Lives Matter: Music, Race, and Justice Conference[30] in February 2017. She has also moderated panels on literature and film at Baltimore Book Festival[31] and Creative Alliance[32] in Baltimore, MD.

In 2020, her writing has appeared in Chamber Music Magazine, New York City Jazz Record, The ZORA Music Canon , Universal Music Group's branded content online publication, uDiscover Music and has written a COVID-19 arts & entertainment column for New York Amsterdam News entitled Stealth Isolation. 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.

Jordannah's has shared commentary and made many guest appearances on radio shows and podcasts including CBC syndicated radio, BBC 2, WYPR and several podcast shows. She has appeared episodes of the Reelz Channel music docu-series, Breaking the Band and is slated to appear on the Reelz Channel/Viacom CBS International Studios music docu-series, The Story of the Song. She has also work on projects by Bert Marcus Productions and the UK production company, RAW TV.

Jordannah is a recipient of the Sundance Institutes' Press Inclusive Initiative grant and received scholarships to study television writing at Sundance Co//ab.

As a screenwriter, Jordannah has written an original pilot based on her novella series, The Warmest Low and wrote the script for an episode of the PBS Digital web series, Sound Field. She has been mentored by screenwriters and showrunners, Jessica Hinds, Diane Ruggiero, Krista Vernoff and Evette Vargas.

• Don't Lose Track Vol. 1: 40 Selected Articles, Essays and Q&As. (Zer0 Books) 2016
• The Warmest Low (Chapbook One) Limited Edition Two. (Publik / Private Small Press) 2017
• She Raised Her Voice!: 50 Black Women Who Sang Their Way into Music History. (Running Press Kids) 2021

• Official Publik Private website
• Official the Process Records website