Danyel Smithis author of the critically-acclaimed Shine Bright: A Very Personal History Black Women in Pop, and creator/host of the award-winning Black Girl Songbook, a podcast focused on the stories of Black women in music. A former culture editor at ESPN, editor-in-chief of VIBE, and editor of Billboard, the New Yorker calls Danyel “one of the nation’s most astute chroniclers of pop and hip-hop culture.”