For the last 10 years Jeannine A. Cook has worked as a trusted writer and designer for several startups, corporations, non-profits, influencers, and most recently herself.
In addition to a holding a master’s degree from The University of the Arts and am MFA from Drexel University, Jeannine is also a Leeway Art & Transformation grantee and winner of the Black Girl Magic Award, South Philly Review Difference Maker Award, Philadelphia Magazine’s Best of Philly, Women Leading the 175th, the PACDC Equitable Entrepreneur Award, and the Metro’s Power Women Award.
Jeannine’s work has been recognized by several national and international news outlets including New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Google, Forbes, Inc., Washington Post, Oprah’s Magazine, MSNBC, and the Today Show. She is a proud educator and mother with years of experience teaching creative storytelling in alternative environments from bodegas to city blocks.
She recently returned from Nairobi, Kenya and Birmingham, UK where she facilitated art and social change workshops with youth from 15 countries around the world.
Jeannine writes about the complex intersections of motherhood, activism, and the arts. Her pieces are featured in several publications including monthly critiques in the Broad Street Review, and articles/short stories in Princeton University Press, Philadelphia Inquirer, Mothering Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, Girl God, Mahogany Baby, Good Mother Project, Printworks, Adelaide Magazine and midnight & indigo.
Proudly Jeannine has interviewed a number of NYT bestselling authors for national publications including Nicki Giovanni, Nikole Hannah Jones, Dr. Ibram X Kendi, Will Smith, Jason Mott, Imbolo Mbue, and Alice Walker while hosting a monthly Instagram Live Cooking Show with celebrity chefs including Marcus Samuelson and Vallery Lomas.
In February 2020, Jeannine completed her first book of short stories, Conversations With Harriett and opened Harriett’s Bookshop in the Fishtown section of North Philadelphia. In 2021 she opened Ida’s Bookshop in Collingswood, NJ, both with the mission to celebrate women authors, women artists, and women activists. Jeannine’s children’s book, affectionately named Harrietts was released in Fall 2022.
She is currently working on a new book and she will finish it soon— if the creek don’t rise.
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