Akilah Saidah Kamaria Hughes is an actress, author, comedian, YouTuber, and podcast host born on August 31, 1989, in Edgewood, Kentucky, USA. She earned a bachelor's degree in Broadcasting and Speech Communications from Berea College. She trained as a comedian at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York.
The LA-based writer has written for Fusion, HelloGiggles, SheKnows, Refinery29, Elite Daily, Oxygen, Allure Magazine, and Elle Magazine. Akilah is a Sundance Labs and USC MacArthur Foundation Civic Media fellow. She published her first book, Obviously: Stories from my Timeline, in 2019 through Razorbill.
She began hosting the podcast What a Day, a Webby Award-winning daily news podcast from Crooked Media, in 2019. Her acting credits include Bob's Burgers, Me, Myself & The Void, and You Didn't Want to Know. Her YouTube channel, It's Akilah, Obviously! has more than 145,000 subscribers. She has appeared on The Great Debate, Well, Pod Save America: Four-State Tour, and Comic-Con All Access 2014. Akilah is verified on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok with 240,000, 103,000, and 13,200 followers, respectively.
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Actors, Film and TV