Keija Minor

Minor grew up in Harvard, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Massachusetts-Amherst,^[4] then Howard University Law School, where she graduated in 1999.^[5]

Minor practiced corporate law for four years before moving to magazines,^[6] first joining Travel Savvy where she eventually became editor-in-chief. She also worked for Los Angeles Confidential, then as editor-in-chief of Gotham from 2005 to 2007 and Uptown (2008 to 2011)^[7] before joining Condé Nast.^[8] Minor became executive editor of Brides, the world's largest weddings publication,^[9] in 2011,^[10] then acting editor-in-chief when previous editor-in-chief Anna Fulenwider moved to Marie Claire; the promotion became permanent in November 2012.^[11] This made Minor the first African-American to hold the editor-in-chief title in Condé Nast's then-103-year history.^[12] At Brides, Minor oversaw the expansion of the publication into commercial endeavors,^[13] including making editors from the magazine available for hire as private consultants to individual brides.^[14]

In 2013, The Grio named Minor to its Grio 100 list, citing her "breaking Conde Nast's color barrier at Brides."^[15]

Minor resigned from Condé Nast in 2017.^[16]

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