Ashley Akunna - BIO

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Finalist, Screenwriters of Color Retreat Scholarship: Spring 2026 Sicily

 

BIO 

Ashley Akunna is a Texas-born, Jersey-raised, first-generation Nigerian American writer and former YouTube talk-show host whose failed dream of becoming the next Oprah led her to screenwriting. She writes character-driven dramas about found family and morally complex outsiders, shaped by survival and longing. Nomadic by nature, she considers being an aunt her most important job.

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