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Akilah Hughes Wiki, Age ( BuzzFeed ) Bio, Family, Book, Wikipedia

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Personal Information Summary
Name Akilah Hughes
Sister Not Known
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB August 31, 1989. As of 2025, she is around 36 years old.
Husband / Spouse / Wedding & Marriage / Dating / Boyfriend No confirmed information is available.
Where is Akilah Hughes? Akilah Hughes is a writer, comedian, and YouTuber based in Brooklyn, NY.
Children / No of Kids None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race Black
Nationality American
Wiki Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

  • A woman of many talents, Akilah Hughes is an African American comedian who writes and does stand up, sketch, improves comedy and also makes YouTube videos.

  • Hughes has the desire to become a news anchor on SNL’s Weekend Update since the time she graduated from college.
  • A person of numerous interests she says she can’t stick to any one particular interest area in her blog and writes on everything from comedy to hair to pop culture to race to fashion and make-up.
  • She is currently located in Brooklyn, New York.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

  • Akilah Hughes was born on August 31, 1989.
  • She is originally from Cincinnati and claims her mother loves her comedy and thinks she is funny.
  • Though she says she is African American she doesn’t know which country her roots are from. She calls herself English and Cherokee Indian.
  • She has an older brother and has a nephew, Mason and a niece Nadia.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

  • Akilah completed her high schooling from Boone County High School & later secured her independent majors in Broadcasting and Speech Communications specializing in Mass Communications from Berea College.
  • She was trained with the improvisational and sketch comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

  • As of 2017, Akilah works as a Producer and Staff Writer at Fusion, an ABC-Univision Joint Venture.
  • She also contributes her writings to HelloGiggles, Femsplain and Refinery29.
  • She also hosted a series called Tipsy Book Review on YouTube.
  • She is part of a comedic series with Lyle Friedman who is her partner and credits Sundance Episodic Story Labs and is also included in the YouTube Supercharger program in NYC.
  • She wrote the script and was part of videos for Fusion, mainly the commentary show called This Shouldn’t Be News and also The Curls Room, a show which targeted people with naturally long curly hair.

Interests and Hobbies :

  • Akilah says she started taking photos when she was in High School for her yearbook. And what started as a hobby soon graduated to something serious as her roommate in college was a photographer who owned an excellent Nikon D60 camera. She wants to start her own business in photography if she finds the time for it.
  • Akilah also would be publishing a book of essays through a Penguin imprint called Razorbill Books.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

  • Akilah just loves smoothies because it is a healthy mix of two things she loves. One is fruits and the other is beverages. She says she prefers beverages to food and can gorge on liquid diet.
  • Ryan Seacrest told her that her hair was “really cool” and even though she lost in the show Million Second Quiz in 2013 she feels she definitely won something.
  • She is quite active on social media and has accounts on Twitter (now called X), Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest among others.
  • Extremely careful about grooming her hair, she says she stopped chemically straightening her hair in 2009 and has only been chopping off the ends of her hair so as to remove any straightened hair. She jokes that there just might be a conehead under her hair waiting to be discovered.

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