A'Lelia Bundles

A’Lelia Bundles is the author of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance (Scribner 2025), the first major biography of her great-grandmother, and a 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award finalist and a 2025 ABWH Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize honorable mention. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, her biography about her great-great-grandmother, was a New York Times Notable Book and bestseller. She is the founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives, the largest private collection of Walker photographs, memorabilia, and ephemera. A’Lelia worked in network television news for thirty years, first at NBC News where she was a producer for news and magazine programs, and then at ABC News where she was a World News Tonight producer, Washington, DC deputy bureau chief, and director of talent development.

She is a former vice chair of Columbia University’s Board of Trustees and former board chair of the National Archives Foundation. She is a member of several boards that reflect her interests in history, journalism, political activism, social justice, the arts, and historic preservation including the March On! Festival, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Woodlawn Conservancy, GANGGANG, BIO (Biographers International), Indiana Landmarks, Columbia Global Reports and Indianapolis’s ReThink 65/70 Coalition. Read more >>