About Adena
Adena Andrews, is a writer for espnW, a website fully dedicated to serving female athletes and fans. EspnW shines a brighter spotlight on women’s sports and gives you an added perspective on the men’s game. She worked at ESPN the Magazine and NBA.com for three seasons before joining espnW. Adena has also edited for Nike Women and Nike Running. According to Black Enterprise Magazine, she is one of the most influential sports professionals of color to follow on twitter (@adena_andrews) and Shape Magazine nominated her blog, adenaandrews.com, as one of the best for sports nuts. Her professional journalism memberships include the National Association of Black Journalists where she is the Vice President of Social Media for the Sports Task Force and the Associated Press Sports Editors where she is a fellow in the inaugural Diversity Fellowship program. She holds degrees from the University of Southern California (B.A. Print Journalism ’07) and Georgia State University (M.S. Sports Administration ’11) and is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. A native of Long Island, N.Y., she currently resides in Atlanta, Ga.
