Luvvie Ajayi is the Nigerian author of New York Times best-seller I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.
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1 Lovette Ajayi was born in Nigeria; she moved to Chicago with her family when she was nine.
2 She attended Whitney M. Young Magnet High School in Chicago, then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, studying psychology.
3 Ajayi began her career in marketing and digital strategy, and started blogging 2003.
4 Her site AwesomelyLuvvie.com amassed a following particularly for Ajayi’s recaps of television shows like Scandal, drawing the attention of Scandal showrunner Shonda Rhimes.
5 Ajayi published her first book, I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual, with Henry Holt & Co in September 2016, and debuted at number five on the New York Times best-seller list. Ajayi has said the inspiration for the book came after she learned a journalist had plagiarized several paragraphs of her writing—and when confronted, he said he was unaware he should have credited her work.
6 2016, The New York Times reported that Ajayi had approximately 500,000 between her personal Twitter feed and the Awesomely Luvvie website.
7 In 2016, Ajayi was the first writer invited to speak at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and her event sold out.
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