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Jazmyne Courtnii Byrd - CEO/Journalist

Jazmyne Courtnii Byrd is an award winning journalist who was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended Woodward High School where she graduated in 2004. She went on to further her education at the only public HBCU in Ohio; Central State University where she graduated in 2009 with a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology. She relocated to the Washington, DC area in 2009 post-graduation where she worked for the Department of Social Services in Maryland in the Job Readiness Program. She found her career calling in Journalism in 2010 and began writing as a contributing writer for several Magazines including Kingdom Voices, Boss-E Mag, Exude, Beautifully Said and Queen Size Magazine in the fields of Entertainment and Plus Size Fashion. She is CEO and creator of The Divah Filez, an online magazine run by HBCU Students. She is a journalist and Host Corespondent for Sheen Magazine. A serial business owner; she runs and owns the following

Businesses:

The Divah Filez

Empower Melanin

Divine Scouting

Chocolate Chix

Swaggin Jaz

Divah Enterprises serves as a digital portfolio of Jazmyne Courtnii Byrd journalism/hosting career and an umbrella of her businesses.

COVER STORY | AUTHENTICALLY VEE

The word beauty has many different meanings to different people and cultures, but as its core the true meaning of beauty is, simply being who you are and appreciating who you are authentically. Being authentic can often get lost in translation in a world filled with multiple images of standard, standards that in the real world nobody can truly live up to without having to compromise who they are. From Marilyn Monroe to Kim Kardashian-West, the debate on beauty is a universal conversation. In recent years, social media has become the ultimate determination of what beauty is in today’s society and how the world should view it. Yet, no matter what society labels it as, beauty will always be defined as being authentic.