A'Lelia Bundles

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of five books including Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance, a biography of her great-grandmother whose parties, arts patronage and convenings helped shape the social and cultural scene of that era. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, a New York Times Notable Book about her entrepreneurial great-great-grandmother, is the fact-based biography that inspired Self Made, a fictional four-part Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer.

A'Lelia serves on several nonprofit boards that reflect her interest in journalism, history, higher education, historic preservation and archives including the March On! Festival, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, BIO (Biographers International) and Columbia Global Reports. She founded the Madam Walker Family Archives, the largest private collection of Walker ephemera, photographs and correspondence.

A’Lelia was a network television producer for thirty years at NBC News and then at ABC News, where she was Washington, DC deputy bureau chief and director of talent development.