Media & Videos

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2013 Media

• BlerdNation Profile Feature, April 2013

2012 Media

• Digital Sisters Expand to New York by Sylvia Wong Lewis, December 2012
• Digital Sisterhood Month Invites Women to Connect Online and Offline by Kimberly Maul, December 2012
• Digital Sisterhood Network Announces 2012 Digital Sisters of the Year by Janel Martinez, BlackEnterprise.com, December 2012
• Digital Sisterhood Fashion Flash Mob by Brea Ellis, December 2012
• Salon Series by Brea Ellis, December 2012
• Logo Design – Digital Sisterhood Network by Dariela Cruz, November 2012
• Digital Sisterhood Month 2012 – Fierce Living in Fashion Event featured in luri and wilma, a smart magazine for smart girls, November 2012
• Lifestyle:  Women Interactive at Spelman by Ericka Tinsely, October 2012
• Blogalicious Gives Birth to Digital Sisterhood, BeBlogalicious.com, (June 2012)
• Inner Women/Internal Aspects, MadeMoreBeautiful.com, (June 2012)
• The #Digitini Experience, BeEverywhere.TV, (June 2012)
• I’ll Have Two Digtinis Please!!, LisaCWrites.com, (May 2012)
• Ladies Do Tech: #Digitini Social Happy Hour, BrothaTech.com (May 2012)
• DIGITINI: Ladies of @BeEverywhere and Digital Sister, Ananda Leeke Cocktails & Cupcakes, Sojournermarablegrimmett.blogspot.com, (May 2012)
• Spelman College Women of Color Conference, CascadePatch.com, (May 2012)
• How BlissDom Changed Me Interview, BlissDomConference.com (March 2012)
• Ananda’s BlissDom Conference session, “Fierce Living from Your Creative Heart” mentioned in Erin L. Margolin’s My Inner Women blog post (February 2012)
• Stephanie Precourt’s Adventures in Babywearing blog discusses Ananda’s BlissDom Conference session, “Fierce Living from Your Creative Heart.” (February 2012)

2011 Media

• Ananda featured in Lauren Brown Jarvis’ #DigitalSisterhood Wednesday – Why Women Matter Online Matter blog on Digital Doyennes web site (October 2011)
• Ignite DC interview about Ananda’s talk on “Digital Sisterhood for DC Women Entrepreneurs” on Geoff Living’s Posterous blog (October 2011)
• Hager Sharp Hosts BPRS-DC Fall Meeting and Blogalicous Panel, (September 2011)
• Ananda mentioned in Mindy Hong’s A Day with Lil Mama Stuart BlogHer recap (September 2011)
• Ananda featured in BlogHer 2011 video created by PepsiCo’s Women’s Inspiration Network (August 2011)
• Mommy’s Pen BlogHer 11 recap blog mentions Ananda’s comments during Peer Networking session (August 2011)
• BlogHer 2011 LIVEBLOG Transcript for Peer Networking session includes Ananda’s comments as a panelist (August 2011)
• Lilian Chiang’s ChineseGrandma.com’s BlogHer 2011 recap features Ananda and digital sisterhood (August 2011)
• Dana Theus’ BlogHer 2011 Recap blog post mentions Ananda’s participation as a BlogHer panelist for peer networking session (August 2011)
• Kristina Doss’ My Traveling Troop blog features story about Kristina meeting Ananda at the BlogHer 2011 peer networking networking session (August 2011)
• SheWrites.com BlogHer 2011 Diaries by Monica Media: Ananda shares how powerful SheWrites.com is as a peer networking site for women writers at the BlogHer 2011 peer networking session (August 2011)
• Monica Medina’s MonicaTangledWeb.com discusses the role Ananda played as a BlogHer 2011 conference panelist for peer networking session (August 2011)
• Blogger TILTE names Ananda her favorite BlogHer 2011 conference speaker(blog post mentions Ananda’s BlogHer Wellness for Bloggers session) (August 2011)
• Blogger Jessica Anne mentions her digital sisterhood interview with Ananda at BlogHer 2011 (August 2011)
• Ananda featured in Cassie Land’s Blog: A Day with Marita Golden, My Literary Shero and Icon! (August 2011)
• Ananda mentioned in genConnect’s Blog: BlogHer ’11 … Here We Come! (August 2011)
• Black Enterprise named Ananda Leeke (#9 on the list) as one of the Black Women in Tech You Should Follow on Twitter (July 2011)
• Word Association Games with Ananda by Christine Dionese (July 2011)
• Interview with Ananda Leeke of the Digital Sisterhood Project by Kiratiana Freelon, National Association of Black Journalists Digital Blog (April 2011)
• Digital Doyennes, 6inchvinyl (April 2011)
• Digital Doyennes Panel Highlights Digital Sisterhood and Social Media by Sherri L. Smith, Black Web 2.0 (April 2011)
• Afterglow: Digital Doyennes + LightCasting by Akilah Richards, Execumama.com (April 2011)
• Newswise.com reports that Digital Sisterhood founder Ananda Leeke will speak at Spelman College’s Digital Moving Image Salon and Women in Film & Television Atlanta’s Digital Doyenne event (April 2011)
• Smith Magazine Names Ananda Leeke as Member of the Month (April 2011)
• Ananda Leeke speaks about Digital Sisterhood at WOMANIFESTING in ACTION event, Womanifesting.com (March 2011)
• Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Feature Heart of Haiti Blogger Ambassador Ananda Leeke (March 2011)
• Ezulie & Ananda by Danica Kombol, Beirut-or-Bust Blog (February 2011)
• Heart of Haiti Ambassador to Haiti Winner: @AnandaLeeke, TheBlogRollers.com (February 2011)
• Black Yoga Instructors You Should Know, Elev8.com (January 2011)
• Influential1s.com’s First Class of 2011 Influencers (Ananda’s bio – January 2011)
• May The Force Be With You by Regina Holliday(January 2011)

2010 Media

• ‘Artist Talks’ by Glory Edim, IHateMy9to5.com (December 2010)
• Digital Sisterhood by Lauren Thomas, Digital Aftershock (December 2010)
• December is Digital Sisterhood Month, The Renaissance Report (December 2010)
• The Savvy Sista features Digital Sisterhood Month (December 2010)
• 22 Row features Digital Sisterhood Month (December 2010)
• Writer/Blogger LaTonya Richardson’s Digital Sisterhood Month Interview with Ananda Leeke (December 2010)
• All the Blog’s a Page: Influences – In Touch with a Jill of All Trades, Author Ananda Leeke (September 2010)
• “HAUTE LIT: Ananda Leeke on creativity, following your heart, and doing it for yourself!,”This Side of the Wall blog (September 2010)
• Socially Diverse interview (September 2010 podcast)
• Cinchcast’s Feature on Ananda Leeke: “Cinch helps BlogHer Attendees Audio Blog” (August 2010)
• Creative Living with Jamie: Ananda Leeke (August 2010 podcast)
• “Just Say Namaste: How Yoga Will Change Your Mind, Body, and Spirit” (May 2010)
• April 2010 Innerpreneur Spotlight on Rise of the Innerpreneur blog (April 2010)
• Pearls Book Club Blog Interview (April 2010)
• “Novelist gives book marketing tips for fiction writers using social media,” Examiner.com (March 2010)

2009 Media

• BellaOnline interview with Life Coaching editor Leah Mullen (March 2009)
• Feminist Queries interview with Change.org’s Women’s Rights blogger Jen Nedeau (February 2009)

2008 Media

• “A Salute to Scribes: Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke” article (November 2008), Clutch Magazine
• “Writer’s Block” article (October 2008), Prince George’s Suite Magazine highlights Ananda’s debut novel Love’s Troubadours - Karma: Book One and its connection to P.G. County, Maryland. The article also mentions Ananda’s childhood in P.G. County and artist-in-residence work with Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts at Howard University Hospital.
• Spotlight on Pink Heels blog (October 2008)
• “Om, Sweet Om” article (July 2008), The Washington Post’s TheRoot.com features Ananda and her debut novel Love’s Troubadours - Karma: Book One.
• “Yoga: No Fancy Pants Required” article (May 2008), The Washington Post discusses Ananda’s role as a volunteer yoga teacher for a local meet up that offers free yoga classes in Malcom X Park in Washington, DC.
• Interview with BlogTalkRadio’s Black Women’s Roundtable host Gina McCauley (March 2008 podcast), founder of What About Our Daughters blog, Michelle Obama Watch blog, and the Blogging While Brown Conference

Videos

Watch Ananda discuss her writing journey as an author on October 3. 2009, at the Capital BookFest’s panel discussion on “Everything You Wanted to Know about Getting Published. Authors Kevin Johnson, Donna Hill, and Charisse Carney Nunes participated in the discussion moderated by Gregg A. Wihelm. It was held inside of Borders Bookstore in Largo, Maryland.

Watch Ananda discuss how she strategically developed the infrastructure of her characters’ lives in her debut novel, Love’s Troubadours – Karma: Book One by creating links to her sorority, identify as a Black American Princess (BAP), U Street neighborhood, alma mater Howard University, and artwork created while working as an artist-in-residence at Howard University Hospital. Ananda also shares how she used social media to market her novel. She mentions the relationships she developed with Black Author Showcase, a social networking site for African American writers, authors, editors, poets, and creative professionals. Ananda shared these thoughts on October 3. 2009, at the Capital BookFest’s panel discussion on “Everything You Wanted to Know about Getting Published.” Authors Kevin Johnson, Donna Hill, and Charisse Carney Nunes participated in the discussion moderated by Gregg A. Wihelm. It was held inside of Borders Bookstore in Largo, Maryland.

Watch Ananda talk about her work as an artist-in-residence for Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts at Howard University Hospital n DC during a gallery event held at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery. Ananda shares how she uses poetry to document cancer patients’ experience while they are in the hospital. She discusses how she offers patients the power of choice in her work. Liane Scott of DC Visions and Video Exchange filmed the video.

Watch Ananda’s interview with WUSA Channel 9 Morning News Anchor Andrea Roane on March 11, 2008 in Washington, DC. During the interview, Ananda discusses the importance of Women’s History Month and the meaning of art and creativity in women’s lives. She also shares information about her novel Love’s Troubadours – Karma: Book One and the orginal artwork on the book cover. In addition, she discusses her novel’s connection to the Haitian goddess of love – Erzulie, HIV/AIDS awareness, The Women’s Collective, and the historic U Street neighborhood.