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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Publisher, Editor, Writer |
| Location | Washington, DC, United States |
| Introduction | Vashti Dominiqué Robinson is the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of Urban Kingdom Magazine, and CEO of the Urban Kingdom Media Group, LLC. Born and raised in the DC metro area, Vashti Dominiqué forged a fifteen-year career in commercial and retail asset management directly out of high school, but always cleaved to an unmatched adoration for writing and the craft of mass media production. Combining her expertise in business, with an innate and dynamic writing skill; she founded Black City Magazine in 2002, a Web-based African American lifestyle magazine. Several years later, as she began to develop and mature spiritually, she discovered a niche. Born into a generation that set new rules in traditional living and discipleship, she restructured Black City Magazine to serve as a relevant platform of expression for a new culture of African Americans. In 2005, the Urban Kingdom Media Group was formed, and Urban Kingdom Magazine, the first born of the conglomerate. In 2007, Vashti Dominiqué gave up her career to focus on perfecting UKM’s business model and editorial brand. Her passion is helping individuals realize and actualize their real reason for being here. |
| Interests | Spending time with family. That is my biological family AND my church family. Writing, for any reason; magazines - love them, especially the one I publish. |
| Favorite Movies | Ever After with Drew Berrymore, Training Day, Boys in Da' Hood, The Holiday, The Family Stone, The Last Holiday, Tsotsi, Forrest Gump, and Pan's Labyrinth, to name a few . . . and I love documentaries, especially historical documentaries and those accounting the miraculous achievements of everyday people . . . oh and |
| Favorite Music | Gospel, Hip Hop, real Hip Hop, R&B, Clean/Mature Go Go, Gospel Go Go (if you're not from DC you probably have no idea what Go Go is, but you will find out in due time)... I love jazz - John Coltrane and Carlos Santana, a few of my favorites, I LOVE Old Blue Eyes, Cold Train, Nickelback, Green Day, some classical and some country. |
| Favorite Books | Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, Waiting to Exhale (the movie does the book no justice, but it was good too), Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir of Dorothy Height . . . The World is Flat, The Tipping Point, Journey to the Well, The Bluest Eye, Quicksand & Passing, Come Thirsty, The Day I Died. . . again, just to name a few. |