Social marketeer, presenter & WRITER

Gena-mour Barrett is a 31-year-old social marketing manager, presenter, writer, and all-round great person from south London. She was listed as one of 2019’s 30 Under 30 for Media and Marketing in Europe by Forbes which, while shocking, was a great choice by them. She currently works as a Manager in Netflix UK’s Social Marketing team, before which she was a Very Good Freelancer as part of their Writers Room, where she created a bunch of great content, including the Netflix IX interview series (which she still does). She also co-hosted and produced the award-winning Netflix UK podcast, 10/10 (Would Recommend).

As a social marketeer at Netflix, Gena-mour has run the @NetflixUK Instagram page and co-run the @Netflix TikTok page, which has grown to 38 million followers. Her currently job title - Campaign Manager, Social Marketing - sees her lead social campaigns for Netflix’s UK/IE productions, building exciting, hilarious and thoughtful social campaigns and content for titles such as Sex Education, Black Mirror, One Day, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and Luther: The Fallen Sun.

As a presenter and host for Netflix, Gena-mour hosts the Netflix IX interview series, a YouTube series that has amassed more than 10 million views and has featured the likes of Kate Hudson, Emma Mackey, Micheal Ward, Ncuti Gatwa, Nicola Coughlan and Charlie Brooker. She has co-hosted some of Netflix UK’s biggest red carpets, such as The Witcher with Edith Bowman and Bridgerton with Clara Amfo, as well as interviewed Netflix talent on red carpets for The Crown, Glass Onion and The Harder They Fall.

As a journalist, Gena-mour has bylines at Elle, The Guardian, Refinery 29 and BBC Newsbeat, where she was a reporter for six months. Prior to this, she was a stafff writer at BuzzFeed UK and wrote over 900 posts with some of her top posts gaining over 4 million views each. She was the recipient of the 2018 Roxane Gay fellowship for a woman of colour writing fiction with Jack Jones Literary Arts. She is currently working on her debut YA novel, which is not slowly killing her at all.

She has been on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, BBC Outside Source, spoken about her work on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast, and presented on panels about her experience in journalism and media more broadly. Her essay, "Living on an Estate Gave me a Community I Never Knew I Needed", is one of 23 essays featured in Know Your Place, a working class anthology published by Dead Ink Books in October 2017.

Gena-mour is Very Good. Take it from her. I mean, me. Her. I'm confused as to what person I'm talking in now. Just email me.