Sacha Jenkins
| Sacha Jenkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 Philadelphia, PA |
| Residence | New York, New York |
| Nationality | United States |
| Education | William Cullen Bryant High School |
| Occupation | Journalist, graffiti historian, Hip Hop analyst |
| Known for | Co-founding Beat Down (newspaper) and Ego Trip (magazine) |
| Television | The (White) Rapper Show, Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama, TV's Illest Minority Moments presented by Ego Trip |
| Spouse(s) | Raquel Cepeda |
| Children | Djali and Marceau |
| Parent(s) | Horace B. Jenkins and Monart Renaud |
Sacha Jenkins (born 1971) is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures. While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest ‘zines solely dedicated to “graffiti” art. In 1994, Jenkins co-founded ego trip magazine. In 2007, he created the competition reality program “ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show," which was carried by VH1. Currently, Jenkins is the creative director of Mass Appeal magazine.
Sacha Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1971. The Jenkins family lived in Silver Spring, Maryland until Sacha Jenkins was seven years old. After his parents’ separation, Jenkins’ father, Horace Byrd Jenkins III, moved to Harlem. (Horace was a professor of communications at Howard University.) Jenkins, along with his mother, Monart, and his sister, Dominique, moved to Queens, New York in 1977.
Horace Byrd Jenkins III won Emmy Awards for his contributions to the TV programs "The Advocates," "Sesame Street," and "30 Minutes" (CBS TV series), and was a pioneer in the TV magazine format with the program "Black Journal." Under the name Horace Jenkins, he wrote and directed the feature film Cane River (1982). That same year Horace died of a heart attack.
Sacha’s mother, Monart, who is of Haitian origin, is a painter who has exhibited her work in galleries in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
Jenkins is married to author/filmmaker Raquel Cepeda. The couple have two children, Djali Brown-Cepeda (Jenkins' stepdaughter) and a son, Marceau.
Jenkins graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Woodside, New York in 1990. Afterwards, he attended Brooklyn College and City College of New York. In 2000, Jenkins was awarded a fellowship to the Graduate School of Journalism via National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.
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