Amy DuBois Barnett

An award-winning media executive, author, and television commentator, Amy DuBois Barnett has held senior leadership roles at Paramount, Hearst, Disney, and Time Inc, and has also successfully grown several independently owned media brands. Barnett garnered national acclaim for her roles as the editor-in-chief of Ebony, Teen People (where she made history as the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the country), Honey Magazine, and as deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. 

Barnett is the author of the NAACP Image Award-nominated non-fiction book, Get Yours: How to Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More (Doubleday/Broadway Books). Her short fiction won an award from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and has appeared in several journals and anthologies. She is currently at work on her first novel, SUGAR, which Flatiron will publish in 2026.

Barnett has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles.