Amy DuBois Barnett Biography
Amy DuBois Barnett is an American magazine editor who was born in 1969. She had previously served as Ebony magazine’s chief editor. Barnett was also Harper’s Bazaar’s deputy editor and the chief editor of the magazines Honey and Teen People.
Amy DuBois Barnett Age
Amy is 55 years old as of 2023. She was born in 1969, in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
Amy DuBois Barnett Education
She studied political science and French during an undergraduate at Brown University, where she also joined the sorority Delta Sigma Theta. She studied writing and literature at University College Dublin. She then attended Columbia University for an MFA in creative writing.
Amy DuBois Barnett Family- Parents
Barnett was born and raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, the daughter of Stephen and Marguerite Ross Barnett, the first black woman to head a major research university.
Amy DuBois Barnett Career
She was the country’s first African-American woman editor of a major mainstream publication. Barnett contributed to Fashion Planet, a website that later evolved into the publication Fashion Almanac, while she was a student at Columbia University. Barnett became the managing editor of Fashion Almanac after having first been interested in a career in the fashion sector. The experience also affected Barnett’s interest in journalism. Barnett worked as the lifestyle editor at Essence magazine after receiving her MFA, and in 2000 she became the editor-in-chief of Honey magazine. Her first role as editor-in-chief of a “mainstream consumer magazine[s]” was as managing editor of Teen People when she joined Time Inc. in 2003. After that, she joined Harper’s Bazaar as deputy editor, and in 2010 she was appointed editor-in-chief of Ebony.
While working for Ebony, Barnett managed the magazine’s first overhaul in its 66-year history. She served on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors for three terms after being elected in 2011. Barnett was selected Target Market News’ Media Executive of the Year in 2012 and received eight Salute to Excellence Awards for her efforts there and at various editing jobs. Under the guidance of Jason Whitlock, she was appointed executive editor of The Undefeated, an ESPN sports and culture website that was then in development and aimed toward African-American viewers. Subsequently, Barnett became an executive vice president and chief content officer of TheGrio.Barnett then departed from TheGrio to become the general manager of BET Digital and senior vice president of BET.
Amy DuBois Barnett Awards
Barnett is also an award-winning fiction writer with several published short stories. In 2008, she published an NAACP Image Award-nominated advice book for women: Get Yours! How to Have Everything You Ever Dreamed of and More (Random House).
DuBois Barnett Net Worth
Amy has an estimated net worth of 500 thousand dollars.