about Amy
After pivoting from finance to fashion, I rose to the top of the global media industry as a three-time editor-in-chief and then chief content officer for some of the culture’s most iconic media brands. I wrote a NAACP Image Award nominated advice book, and now with my debut novel releasing January 2026, I’m pivoting once again bringing readers inside of the glamorous and cutthroat world of magazines and music in New York City. I’m also a public speaker, commentator, college professor, and a mom. I love to coach people toward their greatest purpose and highest potential.
Welcome to my new platform! My goal is for you to have a life filled with freedom, adventure, and positive impact.
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An award-winning media executive and author, 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. She is currently a senior advisor for the growth capital firm, Bravo Mondo. Barnett joined Bravo Mondo from Outside Interactive, Inc. where she oversaw the company’s 16 outdoor sports and healthy living media brands and their digital video/television arm, Outside Studios, as their first-ever chief content officer.
Formerly, Barnett was a senior vice president and general manager at Paramount’s BET brand where she oversaw their digital and social platforms. Prior to Paramount, Barnett was executive vice president of digital and chief content officer at Entertainment Studios. In 2016, she led the development of ESPN’s The Undefeated.
Barnett has also won many prestigious awards and garnered national acclaim as the editor-in-chief of Ebony, Teen People (where she became the first Black woman to run a major mainstream magazine in the country), and Honey magazine, and as deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar.
Barnett is the author of the NAACP Image Award-nominated advice book, Get Yours! How To Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More (Doubleday/Broadway Books). Her short fiction has been recognized with an award from the Hurston/Wright Foundation and has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Barnett’s highly anticipated debut novel, If I Ruled the World, will be published by Flatiron Books in January 2026.
A professional public speaker and frequent television commentator, Barnett was a weekly on-air correspondent for CNN and has been featured on many national shows including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, The Early Show, The Katie Show, Nightline, and on various programs on MSNBC, VH1, MTV, and BET. In 2014, she served as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She will teach a leadership course at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School in fall 2025.Barnett has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia University. Currently residing in Los Angeles, she has lived in 12 cities on three continents and is fluent in French.
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Amy has written or has been featured in multiple print and online publications, and has appeared on podcasts and TV, as well as on panels at conferences and events.
