Ivie Ani, journalist and former Music Editor of Okayplayer, was featured as a panelist on the live 2019 MTV News Video Music Awards Aftershow and a judge at NYU's Got Talent. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Women in The World, The Village Voice, BBC, Teen Vogue, PAPER magazine, Complex magazine, Okayplayer, OkayAfrica, Grazia UK, and NYU’s Social and Cultural Analysis Journal. She has held positions at Facebook as a Trending News Content Curator, at BET Networks, and at Associated Press.