Felicia Pride is a writer, content strategist, and educator with more than ten years experience working in media. She provides story and content strategy, develops creative content projects, and manages media and web production through her firm Pride Collaborative (www.pridecollaborative.com). She recently finished co-developing media-based educational materials for the PBS documentary Slavery by Another Name and is working on developing the curriculum for a NPR radio show. Additionally, she is the founder of The Create Daily (www.thecreatedaily.com), a daily resource for content creators.Most recently, she was the founding executive editor of inReads, a new media web property and production of WETA, the nation's leading producer of public television programming. For seven years, she ran BackList, the organization she founded to nurture and highlight underrepresented voices and stories. She worked with a diverse range of clients, from helping to launch a national online book club with the Common Ground Foundation (started by rapper/actor Common) to developing a multi-week literacy initiative with the SEED School of DC.Felicia is the author of seven books, including the essay collection The Message: Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs, published by NBC Universal, which has been used in educational institutions around the country, and for which she co-developed an interactive enrichment program. She recently launched The Message Project (www.themessageproject.org), a multimedia initiative aimed at encouraging young people to amplify their messages. Her latest book, To Create is a collection of interviews with black storytellers and media makers. Her YA novel, Patterson Heights, was a 2010 American Library Association Pick for Reluctant Readers. She also wrote two children's books for Simon & Schuster based on the awarding-winning television show, Everybody Hates Chris. Her next YA novel will be released in 2013. She's also served as the founding book blogger for AOL Black Voices and a columnist for The Root. Currently a Hip-Hop Education Fellow at New York University, Felicia has riffed on media, entrepreneurship, youth development, popular culture, hip-hop, and writing at schools, institutions, and events around the country. Her work has been featured by USA Today, NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and the Baltimore Sun. She has also been highlighted by the Maynard Institute as a Woman of Color in Digital Spaces. She holds an M.A. in writing and publishing from Emerson College. Visit her online at www.feliciapride.com.