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Doreen St. Félix (born 1993) is a writer at MTV News and formerly editor-at-large for Lenny Letter, a newsletter from Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. She has also written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Pitchfork. In 2016, Forbes Magazine named St. Félix to its 30 Under 30 list, citing her work on the Lenny Letter launch with the newsletter reaching 400,000 subscribers in under six months. i-D called her "a guiding voice in the worlds of writing, art and activism." Brooklyn Magazine named St. Félix to its 2016 list of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture," calling her Pitchfork essay on Rihanna "definitive." The Huffington Post named the same essay to its list of "The Most Important Writing From People Of Color In 2015;" NPR called it "excellent" and Paper Magazine described it as "the best damn thing ever written re. Rihanna."
St. Félix also cohosts a podcast at MTV News called "Speed Dial with Ira and Doreen," focused on music, pop culture, sex and race. St. Félix attended Brown University where she edited the weekly newspaper. St. Félix currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
