Summer Sizzle BVI is excited to announce Joy Red as host for the 13th Annual Summer Sizzle BVI Fashion & Lifestyle Destination Event scheduled for July 27 – 30, 2023.
Joy Reid will host the Global Glamour Runway Show on Saturday, July 29,
Joy-Ann Reid is an internationally renowned and revered political analyst for MSNBC and host of “The ReidOut”. She is the author of The New York Times bestseller “The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story” (Harper Collins, 2019), as well as “Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide” (William Morrow/Harper Collins, 2015) and “We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama” (Bloomsbury, 2016), which she co-edited with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne. Reid also hosts the podcast “Reid This-Reid That” with veteran journalist Jacque Reid and a book podcast called “What to Reid.”
Previously, Joy hosted the MSNBC show “AM Joy,” offering distinctive analysis and insight on the news every weekend morning. Before that, she hosted the weekday program “The Reid Report.” From 2011 to 2014, Managing Editor of theGrio.com, a daily online news and opinion platform devoted to delivering stories and perspectives that reflect and affect African-American audiences, while also serving as an MSNBC contributor. She has worked in local and national TV news, talk radio and as a press secretary during two presidential campaigns, including Barack Obama's Florida campaign in 2008. Her columns have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, New York Magazine and The Daily Beast.
Reid graduated from Harvard University with a concentration in film in 1991. She taught a course on “race, gender and media” at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications’ New York City annex from 2017 through 2018. Reid and her husband Jason own a documentary film production company. They reside in Maryland and have three children.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, JULY 27th, 2023:
Hike BVI Adventures – Let’s Explore
Welcome Cultural & Style Party – A Taste of BVI – Loose Mongoose, Beef Island @ 8PM
FRIDAY, JULY 28th, 2023:
Health and Wellness Workshop with Mr. Shane Tull, Clinical Psychotherapist, and globally renowned author and Dr. Michelle Martin. Wyndham Lambert Beach Resort 10am – 1pm
A Style Soiree - When Art Meets Fashion
PRIME Restaurant, Romasco Place, Level 3, Waterfront Drive, Road Town, Tortola @ 8PM
SATURDAY, JULY 29th, 2023:
Global Glamour Runway Show at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex
VIP Cocktail Reception @ 6PM Show Time: 7:30pm
Followed by the After Party at Moonstone Night Club, Flemming Street, Road Town, Tortola
SUNDAY, JULY 30th, 2023:
A Chartered Sailing Excursion & Beach Escapade – Jost Van Dyke
Tickets are Now On Sale at SUMMERSIZZLEBVI.COM and will be available at locations in BVI later this month. Stay tune for Early Bird Specials and Event packages including all events. Group rates will also be available. For more information you can contact Antonio Maynard at 284-545-0980 or Nardia Thomas-Mather at 284-543-1936 or email us at info@summersizzlebvi.com