Zandile Blay is an award-winning journalist and professor.
In 2014 she was named a ‘Fashion Innovator of the Year’ by Revlon and Refinery29. In 2013 she was named Journalist of the Year by Africa Fashion International at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Africa. In 2012 Blay was named a Semi-Finalist for the Nieman Journalism Fellowship at Harvard University. In 2010 she was named on Ebony Magazine’s inaugural Power List.
Blay earned her Master of Arts in Fashion with a concentration in Journalism from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Broadcast Journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - both at Syracuse University in New York.
In 2014 Blay launched BDM, an editorial practice specializing in content strategy.
Blay is based in New York and consults globally.
