Biography
Passionate Living Expert
"I came to this planet to teach living with passion!" -Abiola
Author and Media Personality Abiola Abrams writes, broadcasts and gives advice about relationships, sexuality, lifestyle, empowerment and how to live with passion. In the past year the Lifestyle Expert & Love Interventionist has: been a featured Love Columnist on for Yahoo Shine, an MTV Teen Dating Empowerment Coach on the docu-reality series "Made," reported on celebrity news and relationships as a BBC Radio Entertainment Correspondent, talked about and written about love for Essence, blogged on her lifestyle site "Abiola's Passionista Playbook," and hosted/produced her award-winning “Abiola’s Kiss & Tell TV” web talk show and advice vlogs. In addition, she is a recurring Love & Lifestyle Guru on talk shows like the CW Network’s “Bill Cunningham Show.”
Abiola Abrams has hosted lifestyle TV shows like BET's "The Best Shorts," HBO's "The Buzz" and NBC's "Source: All Access" and appears as a pop culture talking head on networks like FOX.
Abiola's upcoming book, The Official Bombshell Handbook, is part humorous memoir, part fun handbook, about using the power of the feminine to live with passion. Dare (Simon & Schuster), a hip hop love story, Abiola's popular debut novel was taught at Amherst College and her provocative writing has been published in anthologies such as Behind the Bedroom Door, Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex, Say Word: Voices from Hip Hop Theater and Eve Ensler's A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer.
Abiola is also a Certified Wellness Coach. She created and curated the Chashama Gallery Manhattan exhibit “Hos, Putas and Dragon Ladies: Our Sexuality Remixed,” “The Goddess Factory” at Rush Arts and VDay's “Until the Violence Stops Film Festival” at the Museum of The City of NY and the Museum of TV and Radio.
Areas of Expertise (3)
Content Creation
Broadcast Journalism
Creative Writing
Education (2)
Vermont College of Fine Arts: MFA, Film and Media Studies 2005
Sarah Lawrence College: BA, Bachelor of Arts; Internships at CNBC and McGraw Hill Publishing
Affiliations (2)
- Incorporated
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
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