Sophia's Struggle

Tina Wells is abusiness strategist, advisor, author, and the founder of RLVNT Media, amultimedia content venture serving entrepreneurs, tweens, and culturists withauthentic representation. Tina has been recognized by Fast Company's100 Most Creative People in Business, Essence’s 40 Under 40,and more. For over two decades she led Buzz Marketing Group, an agency shefounded at age 16 with clients like Dell, The Oprah Winfrey Network, Kroger,Apple, P+G, Johnson & Johnson, and American Eagle that Tina connected withher network of 30,000 buzzSpotters® and 7,000 “momSpotters”, all influentialmillennials and passionate end-consumers. Tina is also the author of severalbooks, including best-selling tween fiction series Mackenzie Blue and its 2020spinoff series, The Zee Files, Honest June, The Stitch Cliqueseries, and the marketing handbook, Chasing Youth Culture and GettingIt Right. Tina’s board positions have included THINX, the UnitedNations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council, The Franklin Institute andYoung Entrepreneur’s Council. She has also served as the Academic Director forWharton’s Leadership in the Business World Program at the University ofPennsylvania and is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows withinthe Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.