About Speaker
Shar Jossell is an award-winning journalist, media personality, and writer. She focuses on pop culture reporting and writes in the intersections of gender, race, and entertainment. She has been featured on Buzzfeed, HuffPost, GLAAD, TMZ, Into, FOX Soul, That Grape Juice, and The Wrap--just to name a few. Her bylines include Variety, ZORA, and Bold Culture, and she penned the March 2021 International Women's Day cover story for Cultured Magazine. Shar is currently a contributing culture writer for THEM, and a guest co-host for Channel Q Radio (Audacy.com). Jossell was notably named to Obvious Magazine's inaugural Visionaries: People To Watch list in 2020 and she is also a 2021 Curve Award recipient for Emerging Journalists.