China Okasi

China Noelle (née Okasi) is an American journalist, producer, writer, and creator, who began her television journey at 30 Rock for NBC News' production department, where she wrote and produced for NBC's Early Today & MSNBC's First Look, with anchors Christina Brown & Dan Kloeffler. While in New York, she created and produced a first-ever star-studded event called Women Of Media (WOM), which brought together powerful women in news, from Tamron Hall to Megyn Kelly, and was both sponsored by Armand de Brignac & held at the Armand de Brignac loft. She expanded her news background by leaping into Hollywood television & film, using her time in Los Angeles to read/critique film and literary manuscripts for renowned Hollywood agent, Joel Gotler, at the Intellectual Property Group, and study the craft. While there, she grew a fondness for, and set up a new home base in, the office's neighborhood of West Hollywood. She learned to write television, and craft spec scripts, similarities of which can be found in Season 4 of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2019). She's the creator of the now popular "Madame Noire" (her personal and fun nickname, which she gave to the mag at its time of birth). She has nostalgically ushered off the entertainment mag to bigger companies, who now publish it to millions. She has appeared as a respected news panelist on virtually every cable news network in the U.S., and contributed to U.K. television. She is in production as the executive producer of Ivy Girls (TM), a heart-wrenching true story about her life as one of five biological sisters in the United States, who made history by all earning Ivy League degrees, from Harvard to Cornell, Penn, Columbia and beyond. She splits her time between Los Angeles and Europe.