Meet the Authors

Frederick Joseph

Frederick is a two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Black Friend (2020) and Patriarchy Blues (2022), Better Than We Found It (2022) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever - The Courage to Dream (2022). He was recognized for the International Literacy Association’s 2021 Children’s & Young Adults’ Book Award, is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list-maker for marketing and advertising, an activist, philanthropist, and poet. Frederick has worked as a Communications and Senior Executive Consultant for companies such as HBO and Twitter.

He was also honored with the 2018 Comic-Con Humanitarian of the Year award and is a member of the 2018 “The Root 100" list of Most Influential African Americans. Frederick consistently writes about marketing, culture, and politics for the Huffington Post, USA Today, NowThisNews, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan amongst others.

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Porsche Joseph

Porsche is the author of Better Than We Found It (2022), development professional, and former educator focused on empowering marginalized groups to create systemic progressive change. Porsche is currently the President of the marketing agency We Have Stories, which provides financial grants for resources and support to storytellers and content creators from diverse communities to help increase the positive representation of these groups in media.

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