Danielle Belton

I know you have some vague sense of who I am. Maybe. Or you don't. But you wouldn't be here if you weren't confused. Maybe we can figure out how we know each other.

Well, I'm 33. I'm a native St. Louisan. I'm a writer. I used to work as a newspaper reporter. I can draw. I used to sing in a jazz band. But you probably know me best as "The Black Snob," aka, Danielle Belton, The Snob, the creator of blacksnob.com. I started the site in 2007 after I left my old job with The Bakersfield Californian newspaper and now work as a blogger, freelance writer and social media consultant. I currently live in our Nation's Capital of Washington, D.C. where I manage the blog and am working on a book about my experience living with Type II Bipolar Disorder.

Still doesn't ring a bell? Well, maybe you know me from such places as NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin, PBS' To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, CNN, MSNBC, ABC's Nightline, Essence Magazine, The American Prospect magazine, my "Google Stalking" of cable news anchor TJ Holmes, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Swedish Nationale Radio, Al Jazeera, UK's The Guardian, The Daily Beast, as the friend-of-a-friend caught up in the "Craigslist Congressman" scandal, The Root, Jezebel, Mediaite, The Huffington Post, BlackVoices, Russia Today, Metro D.C.'s D6 bus, Sirius XM Radio, Uptown Magazine, BP Magazine, some random panel you saw me on at either Harvard University, NABJ, Howard University, Busboys & Poets or some other super random place where people have panels, the Hazelwood School District in St. Louis or Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. You also might know me from Girl Scouts or maybe we dated once. If you look hard enough, I'm sure we'll figure out how you know me.