Author Platform Sheet
Chanelle Henry
Author of *Pretty for a Black Girl: Becoming Black and Human in an Artificial Age*
Author Positioning
Chanelle Henry is a UX strategist, AI systems thinker, writer, and narrative technologist exploring what it means to be Black, neurodivergent, disabled, gender-expansive, spiritual, and human in an increasingly artificial world.
Their work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, user experience and systems design, Black identity and conditional humanity, neurodivergence and disability, faith, symbolism, spiritual rupture, gender exploration and embodiment, digital culture, internet selfhood, narrative strategy, and cultural criticism.
Core Book Platform
Becoming Beta explores identity as iteration: the unfinished, nonlinear process of reconstructing selfhood in public while navigating race, technology, body, faith, gender, illness, and cultural collapse.
Professional Credibility
- 15+ years in UX, CX, design strategy, and creative technology
- experience across consulting, enterprise systems, healthcare, media, nonprofit, and government-adjacent work
- UX and AI strategy work involving human systems, digital transformation, accessibility, and emerging technology
- former Director of UX experience, including building and leading UX practice work
- background in psychology, theology, storytelling, research, and creative technology
- public teaching and instructional experience, including a 43-video educational series
- invited teaching/speaking experience with creative, academic, and professional audiences
Why Chanelle Is the Person to Write This Book
This book requires someone who can move between childhood memory and cultural critique, Black girlhood and AI ethics, chronic illness and systems design, faith and digital life, gender and embodiment, neurodivergence and pattern recognition, UX strategy and literary nonfiction.
Chanelle’s professional work gives them the language of systems. Their lived experience gives them the stakes. Their writing gives them the knife.
Content Strategy
Core pillars: Human Systems in an Artificial Age, Becoming Beta, Pretty for a Black Girl, and Selah Sessions.
Platform Summary
Chanelle Henry is building a public body of work around one central question: Who gets to be human without condition?
Pretty for a Black Girl is the literary center of that ecosystem.