Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and podcast host based in Los Angeles, CA. She was born in Edgewood, Kentucky and was raised in the Northern Kentucky area. She attended Berea College in Berea, KY where she graduated in 2010 with a B.A. in Broadcasting. Akilah moved to New York in 2012 to pursue comedy, attending the Upright Citizens Brigade on scholarship. She's gone on to write and star in videos on her own YouTube channel, MTV, Fusion, HBO, and many others. Akilah Hughes is a Sundance Episodic Story Labs Alum for a half-hour comedy series. A book of her essays, "Obviously: Stories from my Timeline" was released via Penguin Randomhouse in 2019 and she was a founding host of the #1 daily news podcast "What a Day" hosting more than 400 episodes.