Jaunique Sealey, VP, Strategy & Community
Jaunique Sealey has a broad range of experience in business and brand architecture, digital strategy, marketing, and product innovation. A graduate of Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and Harvard Law School, Jaunique’s professional career began as a music attorney and entertainment industry executive, followed by a period as a senior digital strategist and business development executive for Lady Gaga, assisting with the platinum album release, “Born This Way,” and executive producing the “Gaga’s Workshop” digital experience for Barneys New York that won an array of marketing awards, including an OMMA Award, Gold and Silver W3 Awards and a Davey Award. Sealey then began her own consulting agency and was hired by the late artist Prince as an addition to his in-house business and legal team.
She is most widely known as a fiction author under the pen name Jayne Allen, having authored Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, Black Girls Must Be Magic, and a forthcoming third title published by the HarperPerennial imprint of HarperCollins Books. Her fiction has been featured in Essence Magazine, Good Morning America, The Root, Bustle, Ms. Magazine, Goodreads, PopSugar, and Shondaland. Jaunique is the also the author of non-fiction titles Regroup: The How-To of Never Giving Up, and Piece of the Fame: Rockstar Social Media Marketing Strategy for Everyone to Ignite Your Business, Career, and Personal Brand, which have been featured across numerous media platforms including Forbes, Mashable, and The Huffington Post.