COMING SOON
FAR AWAY
FROM CLOSE
TO HOME
Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of “home” means to a Black millennial woman.
Author
Vanessa Baden Kelly
Author - Television Writer - Actress
Vanessa Baden Kelly is an Emmy winning actress, Emmy nominated writer, and producer. She began her career as a child , starring on Nickelodeon’s Gullah Gullah Island and Kenan and Kel.
After departing entertainment, she began organizing in college. To date, she has led campaigns for The Trayvon Martin Foundation, Community Coalition South LA, and various political campaigns including Obama for America ‘08 and the Ndoum Presidential Campaign in Accra, Ghana. Additionally, she is an Ambassador for the RuJohn Foundation.
Upon her return to Hollywood, Vanessa has become a successful television writer and producer, writing for shows such as TNT’s Animal Kingdom and Mindy Kaling’s HBO Max series Sex Lives of College Girls. Vanessa originated the role of Journee as writer/star of the Issa Rae digital series Giants, where she is 4 times Emmy nominated and one time Emmy winning for Best Actress in a Digital Drama. Vanessa is mother to a human son, Ryder, and a dog son named Dude.
"Too much has changed. But also, so little has...the American Revolution is now. Strategy won all those wars. Innovation. We can do that, and more humanely."
- excerpt from Texts With Chaz