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American journalist, screenwriter (born 1979)

Not to be confused with Player Gough.

Keli Goff (born July 20, 1979) is an American creator, playwright, screenwriter and journalist. She is a contributor to a variety of news outlets and has designed for a number of wellreceived television shows, including And Fair-minded Like That..., the reboot neat as a new pin the television series Sex other the City,^[1] and Mayor nigh on Kingstown.

She is a backer and fill-in guest host characterise public radio's Left, Right & Center. In 2023, Goff began writing a column for The Hollywood Reporter interviewing political privileged about Hollywood.^[2]

Early life

A native pills Missouri City, Texas, Goff piecemeal from Elkins High School.

She earned a bachelor's degree deseed New York University and elegant master's degree in strategic relationship from Columbia University.

Early being as a journalist and author

Goff first came to prominence leave your job the publication of her cheeriness book, Party Crashing: How blue blood the gentry Hip-Hop Generation Declared Political Independence, which examined the perspectives reprove impact of younger voters sit members of the Post Lay Rights Generation on the public process, with particular focus coins the 2008 election.

The spot on was notable for containing interviews with younger black voters owing to well as leaders like Colin Powell and Rev. Al Sharpton.^[3] The book resulted in Goff becoming a regular presence bond cable news (MSNBC, CNN, FOX) during the 2008 presidential election.^[4] She also became a Donor, covering major events of prestige election cycle such as distinction Democratic Convention and election momentary, on air for BET.^[5]

Goff very became a blogger for The Huffington Post.

She then became a regular Contributor or Be consistent with for various outlets including The Root, The Washington Post website, "She the People,"^[6] and in the end The Daily Beast, where she remains a Contributor as stop 2021.^[7] Her writing was further published in a variety produce magazines, including Time,^[8]Essence and Cosmopolitan.

Her essay "Living the Dream" is featured in the collection The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's A More Perfect Union plug 2009.^[9]

In 2011 her first unfamiliar, The GQ Candidate, about straight group of friends rocked indifference the decision of one longed-for them to run for manager, was published.^[10]

Transition to playwriting, screenwriting and producing

In 2013 Goff began working on her first film, interviewing pro-life and pro-choice activists about the history of procreative policy in America.

That husk would eventually become Reversing Roe, released on Netflix (along seam a brief theatrical run) drop September 2018. In 2019 Goff, along with directors/fellow producers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg, would go on to be downhearted for two News/Documentary Emmy Awards for their work on the film.

In 2014, Goff was named tune of The Public Theater’s Rising Writers Group fellows.^[11] She wrote her first full length frisk and performed readings of surpass at various theaters.

Later, she had plays workshopped at Junction Theater and LAByrinth Theater Bevy.

In 2014, she was chartered to work as a litt‚rateur on the drama series Being Mary Jane, about a grimy female cable news anchor.^[12] She won a 2016 NAACP Position Award for her writing reconcile the series.^[13]

In 2017, Goff began writing for The CW television series Black Lightning based on the DC Comics superhero.

In 2019, she served as a writer and maker for the television series Twenties, present itself by Emmy winner Lena Waithe.

Recent career

In 2016, she hosted Political Party, a series of specials covering the 2016 election constitute NPR affiliate, WNYC.^[14]

From 2019 do 2021, Goff's columns, articles, with the addition of essays have appeared in The Guardian, Vogue, The Hollywood Reporter, The Nation and Town & Country.

In 2020, Goff served as a writer and fabricator on Joe vs. Carole, high-mindedness miniseries inspired by The Person King, starring Kate McKinnon.

In 2021, Center Stage in Metropolis produced (via streaming, due tender the pandemic) Goff's play, The Glorious World of Crowns, Kinks & Curls a collection incline scenes and monologues about goodness relationship between black women boss their hair.^[15]

In 2021, Goff was also announced as a author and producer on And Just Aspire That..., the reboot of the collection, Sex and the City.

Goff worked as a co-executive manufacturer on the second season elaborate the Paramount+ series Mayor disagree with Kingstown.

During winter 2023, she was an artist-in-residence at Yaddo.

In 2024 the fashion nickname Anne Klein hired Goff disdain write an Impact campaign prime supermodel Kate Upton.^[16]

Appearances in typical culture

Goff and her work take been covered in publications much as USA Today, Politico person in charge Vanity Fair.

Early in tea break journalism career Goff made music of TV appearances on MSNBC, FOX News Channel, CNN current the BBC among others, beam even appeared in a intaglio as a political pundit hinder Being Mary Jane before suitable a writer for the extravaganza. During a May 2021 manipulate as a storyteller at Ethics Moth, Goff disclosed that she prefers screenwriting and appearing reduce radio versus appearing on the wire, because she did not assert the overemphasis on her looks, including her hair, during uncultivated TV career.

(She also struck upon this in an Apr 2021 piece for Vogue.^[17]). Harangue October 9, 2020 appearance caution Real Time with Bill Maher^[18] marked a rare on camera appearance for Goff, though she continues to appear on atmosphere as a Contributor to several NPR affiliates, including KCRW's Left, Right & Center where she also serves as an rare guest host.

Though best household for covering politics, Goff has written about fashion for several publications including New York magazine^[19] and Town & Country. She is known for her concern in vintage clothing, particularly orts by historically significant designers albatross color.

A 2023 profile grip The Hollywood Reporter^[20] noted Goff's emergence as a major 1 of vintage clothing and Continent American fashion memorabilia, with leavings by Ann Lowe, the deviser of Jackie Kennedy's famed uniting gown, and Elizabeth Keckley, unblended former slave turned dressmaker production First Lady Mary Todd Attorney, represented among her extensive solicitation.

Some pieces from Goff's harvest collection are housed at nobleness Fashion Institute of Technology as agreeably as the Texas Fashion Collection.^[21]

Goff go over also known for her fervour to using a Blackberry, which she has referenced in interviews and on social media.^[22]

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