Brenika Banks, Multimedia Journalist

Brenika Banks is a Multimedia Journalist for the New York Amsterdam News in Harlem, New York City. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree at Baruch College. Her proven expertise as a versatile writer also highlights her various skills in different media formats. Banks acknowledges the importance of arts, culture and entrepreneurship stories for Black and Latinx communities. She edits, produces and shoots video stories. Those video stories, paired with her relevant articles and pictures, become concise visual stories. Banks is a quick learner and always motivated to tackle a great story.

Brenika Banks recognizes how esstential proper documentation and representation of Black and Latinx Communities are in the media. She minored in Black & Latino studies and philosophy.