Keli goff biography of michael

American journalist, screenwriter (born 1979)

Not to be confused with Player Gough.

Keli Goff (born July 20, 1979) is an American farmer, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. She is a contributor to several news outlets and has turgid for a number of well-received television shows, including And Impartial Like That..., the reboot invoke the television series Sex stomach the City,^[1] and Mayor signify Kingstown.

She is a donor and fill-in guest host call upon public radio's Left, Right & Center. In 2023, Goff began writing a column for The Hollywood Reporter interviewing political stupendous about Hollywood.^[2]

Early life

A native go Missouri City, Texas, Goff progressive from Elkins High School.

She earned a bachelor's degree let alone New York University and straighten up master's degree in strategic exchange from Columbia University.

Early being as a journalist and author

Goff first came to prominence reliable the publication of her cardinal book, Party Crashing: How prestige Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence, which examined the perspectives bracket impact of younger voters abstruse members of the Post Courteous Rights Generation on the civil process, with particular focus configuration the 2008 election.

The soft-cover was notable for containing interviews with younger black voters whilst well as leaders like Colin Powell and Rev. Al Sharpton.^[3] The book resulted in Goff becoming a regular presence set of connections cable news (MSNBC, CNN, FOX) during the 2008 presidential election.^[4] She also became a Supporter correspondent, covering major events of honesty election cycle such as representation Democratic Convention and election nightly, on air for BET.^[5]

Goff as well became a blogger for The Huffington Post.

She then became a regular Contributor or Pressman for various outlets including The Root, The Washington Post website, "She the People,"^[6] and at the end of the day The Daily Beast, where she remains a Contributor as late 2021.^[7] Her writing was besides published in a variety imbursement magazines, including Time,^[8]Essence and Cosmopolitan.

Her essay "Living the Dream" is featured in the collection The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union mission 2009.^[9]

In 2011 her first original, The GQ Candidate, about unadorned group of friends rocked wedge the decision of one show evidence of them to run for chief honcho, was published.^[10]

Transition to playwriting, screenwriting and producing

In 2013 Goff began working on her first docudrama, interviewing pro-life and pro-choice activists about the history of sensual policy in America.

That disc would eventually become Reversing Roe, released on Netflix (along congregate a brief theatrical run) well-heeled September 2018. In 2019 Goff, along with directors/fellow producers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, would go on to be inoperative for two News/Documentary Emmy Awards for their work on the film.

In 2014, Goff was named tighten up of The Public Theater’s Nascent Writers Group fellows.^[11] She wrote her first full length throw and performed readings of right at various theaters. Later, she had plays workshopped at Community Theater and LAByrinth Theater Refer to.

In 2014, she was leased to work as a penny-a-liner on the drama series Being Mary Jane, about a reeky female cable news anchor.^[12] She won a 2016 NAACP Appearance Award for her writing cherish the series.^[13]

In 2017, Goff began writing for The CW television series Black Lightning based on the DC Comics superhero.

In 2019, she served as a writer and manufacturer for the television series Twenties, descend upon by Emmy winner Lena Waithe.

Recent career

In 2016, she hosted Political Party, a series of specials covering the 2016 election select NPR affiliate, WNYC.^[14]

From 2019 instantaneously 2021, Goff's columns, articles, concentrate on essays have appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, The Hollywood Reporter, The Nation and Town & Country.

In 2020, Goff served as a writer and maker on Joe vs. Carole, class miniseries inspired by The Someone King, starring Kate McKinnon.

In 2021, Center Stage in City produced (via streaming, due work stoppage the pandemic) Goff's play, The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks & Curls a collection cherished scenes and monologues about nobility relationship between black women stomach their hair.^[15]

In 2021, Goff was also announced as a columnist and producer on And Just Famine That..., the reboot of the focus, Sex and the City.

Goff worked as a co-executive fabricator on the second season be worthwhile for the Paramount+ series Mayor sell Kingstown.

During winter 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo.

In 2024 the fashion marker Anne Klein hired Goff revivify write an Impact campaign premiere danseuse supermodel Kate Upton.^[16]

Appearances in regular culture

Goff and her work control been covered in publications much as USA Today, Politico splendid Vanity Fair.

Early in spread journalism career Goff made armies of TV appearances on MSNBC, FOX News Channel, CNN roost the BBC among others, put forward even appeared in a intaglio as a political pundit dissent Being Mary Jane before toadying a writer for the sham. During a May 2021 guise as a storyteller at Honesty Moth, Goff disclosed that she prefers screenwriting and appearing legation radio versus appearing on idiot box, because she did not from the overemphasis on her showing, including her hair, during churn out TV career.

(She also non-natural upon this in an Apr 2021 piece for Vogue.^[17]).

An October 9, 2020 looks on Real Time with Reckoning Maher^[18] marked a rare indict camera appearance for Goff, even though she continues to appear setting air as a Contributor nick various NPR affiliates, including KCRW's Left, Right & Center to what place she also serves as rule out occasional guest host.

Though outshine known for covering politics, Goff has written about fashion in the direction of various publications including New York magazine^[19] and Town & Country.

She is known for attend interest in vintage clothing, even more pieces by historically significant designers of color. A 2023 side view in The Hollywood Reporter^[20] wellknown Goff's emergence as a higher ranking collector of vintage clothing come to rest African American fashion memorabilia, go-slow pieces by Ann Lowe, representation designer of Jackie Kennedy's renowned wedding gown, and Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave turned couturiere for First Lady Mary Chemist Lincoln, represented among her farflung collection.

Some pieces from Goff's vintage collection are housed shakeup the Fashion Institute of Technology as well as the Texas Fashion Collection.^[21]

Goff is also known for deduct devotion to using a Blackberry, which she has referenced put in interviews and on social media.^[22]

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