W. Kamau Bell is a Peabody Award-winner, four-time Emmy Award-winner, documentary filmmaker, stand-up comedian, Celebrity Jeopardy! champion, Official Ambassador of the band Fishbone, self-proclaimed #1 Bruce Lee Expert (Non-Asian Division), podcaster, part-time activist, and full-time family man. As an author, Kamau is a two-time New York Times Bestseller with Do The Work! An Antiracist Activity Book and Who is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service. In television, Kamau is best known for his CNN docuseries United Shades of America, his four-part Showtime docuseries We Need To Talk About Cosby, and his HBO documentary 1000% Me: Growing Up Mixed.
This year Kamau launched a new podcast, Who’s With Me? His podcast is based on his bestselling Substack newsletter of the same name. Since 2013, Kamau has been the ACLU Artist Ambassador for Racial Justice. Kamau is on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit organizations DonorsChoose and LiveFree. His next book is a children’s book that he co-wrote with bestselling author Adam Mansbach, titled Rock, Paper, Scissors, Cheese.