Khadijah Iman is a queer Black Indigenous screenwriter from Boston, MA. She realized her knack for entertaining and touching hearts after writing, illustrating, and performing a short story at her grandmother’s funeral when she was nine years old. She went on to receive a BFA in Creative Writing for Entertainment from Full Sail University and was an inaugural fellow in the 2016 Native American Media Alliance TV Writers Lab. The following years were spent in NAMA’s TV Writers Boot Camp and Feature Writers Lab while also working towards her TV Writing Certificate from UCLA Extension.
Based in Los Angeles, Khadijah is currently a studio data administrator at Netflix and continues to write with every moment she has to spare. She’s committed to telling thought provoking queer-led stories about grief, identity, and broken societies – often in the genre, procedural, or drama space. Her scripts have placed in Final Draft’s Big Break Contest, Austin Film Festival, Screencraft’s TV Pilot Competition, among others. In the land of podcasting, she hosts “Let’s Talk About It! with Khadijah Iman” where she interviews entertainment industry professionals about how they overcome mental health challenges, racism, and more.
Khadijah is a 2023 Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program alum, a self-taught piano and drum player, and obsessed with Horror and classic Disney Channel Original Movies.