Brea Baker is a writer with a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University. Under her own name, Brea contributes essays and reported op-eds on race and gender to leading publications including ELLE, Harper’s BAZAAR, Refinery 29, Parade Mag, People, THEM, gal-dem, and more. Brea is represented by Johanna Castillo, Writers House.

Additionally, Brea is a sought after ghost writer and editor who has collaborated on half a dozen projects including a New York Times bestseller. Brea specializes in working with women of color and Black industry leaders on their book proposals and manuscripts but, for years, she has supported thought leaders with speeches, social media copywriting, video scripts, talking points, open letters, opinion editorials, and more. More than being able to adhere to tight deadlines and produce well-crafted narratives, Brea excels in synthesizing dense, sociopolitical topics.

PUBLISHED WORK

Co-Authored, Edited, or Contributed to by Brea.

American Negra A Memoir by Natasha S. Alford

"The centuries-long attack on Black history represents a strike against our very worth, brilliance, and value. We're ready to fight back. And when we fight, we win." --Colin Kaepernick

Since its founding as a discipline, Black Studies has been under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. Our History Has Always Been Contraband was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an AP African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States. Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Our History Has Always Been Contraband brings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the AP curriculum.

Our History Has Always Been Contraband excerpts readings that cut across and between literature, political theory, law, psychology, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, queer and feminist theory, and history. This volume also includes original essays by editors Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor, elucidating how we got here, and pieces by Brea Baker, Marlon Williams-Clark, and Roderick A. Ferguson detailing how we can fight back.

No Justice, No Peace: From the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

Award-winning photographer Devin Allen has devoted the last six years to documenting the protests of the Black Lives Matter movement, from its early days in Baltimore, Maryland, up to the present day. The riveting images in No Justice, No Peace provide a lens on the resistance that has empowered Black lives generation after generation. Allen’s signature black & white photos bear witness to the profound history of African Americans and allies in the fight for social justice and portray the collective action over decades in stunning, timeless portraits.

Allen’s remarkable photos of today’s Black Lives Matter protests, which have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and twice on the cover of Time Magazine, were inspired by Gordon Parks of the Civil Rights Movement—and create a vision of the past and future of Black activism and leadership in America. With contributions from 15 bestselling and influential writers and activists of today, such as Clint Smith, DeRay McKesson, D. Watkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Emmanuel Acho, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and more, alongside the words of past writers and activists such as Martin Luther King Jr, Frederick Douglas, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, John Lewis, No Justice No Peace is a reminder of the moral responsibility of Americans to break unjust laws and take direct action.

DATE SMARTER, MAKE BETTER DECISIONS IN LOVE, AND ACHIEVE THE RELATIONSHIP YOU DESERVE… IT ALL STARTS WITH NOT SETTLING!

By day, Faith Jenkins is the host of the nationally syndicated TV show Divorce Court; by night, she’s a happily married newlywed who navigated the dating streets for years before learning how to attract the love of her dreams. When she turned 35 without a wedding ring in sight, like most women, she started getting tons of questions about not being married. But she made a decision: I. Will. Not. Settle.

Modern culture would have women believe they can’t have it all—and be smart, successful, strong women with authentic love to boot. Wrong. Told in her signature style—sometimes salty and sometimes sweet—Faith provides real solutions that will teach you how to thrive in relationships while avoiding common missteps and pitfalls. She delivers it straight, with no chaser, to show us how to level up, and reminds us, “how you live single will set the tone for your success in marriage, if that’s your goal.”

Smart, illuminating, and, often laugh-out-loud funny, Sis, Don’t Settle is the essential playbook that will help you build your confidence, generate better results in love, and land a high-value relationship once and for all.

Award-winning journalist Natasha S. Alford grew up between two worlds as the daughter of an African American father and Puerto Rican mother. In American Negra, a narrative that is part memoir, part cultural analysis, Alford reflects on growing up in a working-class family from the city of Syracuse, NY.

In smart, vivid prose, Alford illustrates the complexity of being multiethnic in Upstate New York and society’s flawed teachings about matters of identity. When she travels to Puerto Rico for the first time, she is the darkest in her family, and navigates shame for not speaking Spanish fluently. She visits African-American hair salons where she’s told that she has “good” hair, while internalizing images that as a Latina she has "bad” hair or pelo malo.

A coming-of-age story about what it's like to live at the intersections of race, culture, gender, and class, all while staying true to yourself, American Negra is a captivating look at one woman’s experience being Negra in the United States.

As the movement to highlight Afro-Latin identity and overlooked histories of the African diaspora grows, American Negra illustrates the diversity of the Black experience in the larger fabric of American society.