Kenyatta Matthews Bio, Age, Career, Books, Between the World and Me

Kenyatta Matthews Biography

Kenyatta Matthews is a writer, editor, humanitarian, activist and medical professional from New York. Mathews is Intelligent, passionate and self-driven. 

She has worked hard to break social barriers and prove that she is above the negative stereotypes often associated with women of color.

Kenyatta Mathews Age

Mathews is around 35-36 years old as of 2019. She was born in the United States.

Kenyatta Mathews Family

Kenyatta grew up in a single-parent household as the only child of a single mother. During her first stint at Howard University, she met her future husband Ta-Nehisi Coates. The two began dating after smoking marijuana together at a house party.

The couple welcomed their first and only child, a son named Samori Maceo-Paul when they were just 24 years old. But chose not to get married despite quite a lot of pressure from their friends and family. Kenyatta and Ta-Nehisi eventually tied the knot years after having Samori. Samori shares a love for science and math with his mother.

Kenyatta Mathews Career

After graduating from Howard University the first time, Matthews interned at Gannett News Service. She then went on to work as a writer and editor for various publications including TIME Magazine, The Wilmington News Journal.

Parenting, Ms. Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, OK Magazine, Guidepost Magazine, Suede Magazine. Quick and Simple Magazine, Lexus-Nexus publications, Conde Nast and Hearst.

While studying at Columbia, she interned in Bronx, New York at Montefiore Hospital where she worked as a medical assistant in the Emergency Department. She also worked as a research assistant at St. Luke Roosevelt Hospital at Columbia University’s Obesity Center.

Kenyatta is a certified rape crisis counselor and volunteers in a SAVI program working with survivors of sexual violence as well as domestic abuse. She has also worked at the Bronx Lebanon Hospital as an advocate for asthma literacy.

Educating caregivers of asthmatic children in particular about handling the condition effectively to avoid medical emergencies. Additionally, she is a member of the Math4Science org project.

It assists underprivileged students looking to overcome challenges that prevent them from pursuing their dream careers in mathematical fields. Matthews has earned many accolades for her work including a General Studies Service Award for her leadership and service to Columbia University.

Kenyatta Mathews Education

Matthews majored in Journalism and English at Howard University. After working for about a decade, she returned to university in 2009. And graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Physical and Biological Anthropology.

While studying at Columbia, she was part of the school’s Disciplinary Panel for Sexual Assault. As well as the General Studies Student Council Election Committee.

She also worked as an orientation leader, helping freshman students with various activities during orientation day. Later, Kenyatta also enrolled at the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington D.C.

Kenyatta Mathews Between the World and Me

Matthews grew up in a mostly white neighborhood in Chicago where the Dream was evident all around her and where she never felt entirely at home. She was raised to believe that she needed to be smart because she wouldn’t be able to rely on her looks.

Later she was told by white people who believed they were paying her a compliment that she “wasn’t really black” and by young black men that she was “pretty for a dark-skin girl.” Matthews was also an only child and, like the majority of people Coates knew at the time, never knew her father.

Coates describes Matthews as having a “knowledge of cosmic injustices” to which he deeply related and as having opened his eyes to the particular injustices inflicted on women and girls. The two of them met and started dating while they were both attending Howard University; Coates recalls sharing a blunt with Matthews at a party at her house and feeling himself becoming spellbound by her.

When Matthews and Coates were both twenty-four, Matthews unexpectedly became pregnant with Samori. She and Coates resisted the pressure to marry but remained a couple and began raising Samori in Delaware, then in Prince George’s (PG) County, Maryland.

Shortly before September 11th, 2001, Kenyatta got a job in New York City, and the three of them moved to a basement apartment in Brooklyn. Coates says it was Matthews who taught him how to love and be a good father to Samori.

On her thirtieth birthday, Matthews took a trip to Paris. She loved the city, and the pictures she brought back inspired Coates to travel there himself. The following summer, Coates and Matthews brought Samori to Paris as well.

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