Angelica Nwandu

Angelica Nwandu (born 1990) is the founder of The Shade Room, an Instagram-based media company focused on celebrity gossip; The site has since branched out into covering politics and focusing on black culture news. With over 15 million subscribers across all platforms The Shade Room has become a huge force in media, even breaking national stories before mainstream publications. Nwandu was dubbed "The Oprah of our generation" by Refinery 29 and a Celebrity Culture Savant by Complex. Time Magazine named TSR in the 30 most influential on the internet in 2016. The New York Times called The Shade Room "Instagram's TMZ."

Nwandu graduated from Loyola Marymount University.

In 2016, Forbes named Nwandu to its 30 Under 30 list, saying she "revolutionized celebrity gossip" with the founding of The Shade Room.Cosmopolitan reports that The Shade Room's followers across platforms now total more than eight million people.TechCrunch named her to its list of "18 Female Founders Who Killed It in 2015" and BuzzFeed says Nwandu is "figuring things out faster than everyone else."

Nwandu has also been a Sundance Fellow and Time Warner HBO Fellow 2014 selected for the January 2014 Screenwriters Lab.

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