Akilah Hughes

Akilah Hughes is a writer comedian and YouTuber based in Brooklyn NY She was born in Edgewood Kentucky and was raised in the Northern Kentucky area She attended Berea College in Berea KY where she graduated in 2010 with a BA in Broadcasting Akilah moved to New York in 2012 to pursue comedy attending the Upright Citizens Brigade on scholarship Shes gone on to write and star in videos on her own YouTube channel MTV Fusion Vh1 Elite Daily Oxygen Allure Magazine Elle Magazine and many others Akilah Hughes is a Sundance Episodic Story Labs Alum for a halfhour comedy series A book of her essays will be published by Razorbill an imprint of Penguin in 2019