Marielle Bobo
Editorial Strategy/ Fashion + Beauty Direction / Brand Consulting
About
Marielle Bobo is an award-winning creative executive, journalist, and storyteller whose 25-year career has helped define culture at the intersection of fashion, media, and innovation. Her work spans creative direction, editorial leadership, event curation, and cultural programming—reflecting a rare ability to bridge artistry and strategy, vision and execution. Her styling and creative direction have graced more than 100 magazine covers, shaping the visual language of fashion and identity for a global audience.
Through her consultancy, BoboHaus, she crafts innovative brand strategies and storytelling frameworks for clients across industries. Her influence extends into the cultural sphere—most recently contributing her expertise to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2025 Costume Institute exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, the first to explore the Black dandy and fashion’s role in shaping Black identities across the Atlantic diaspora. A passionate advocate for diverse storytelling, she is currently developing an anthology celebrating Haitian-born creatives and their vibrant diaspora, inspired by her Caribbean roots.
A trailblazer across print, digital, and experiential platforms, Bobo has held creative and editorial leadership roles at some of the world’s most iconic brands. As Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President of Programming at EBONY, she led a sweeping digital transformation following its purchase out of bankruptcy, launching a redesigned website and pioneering motion covers that fused photography with AI, AR, and video. She revitalized hallmark events like EBONY Power 100, infusing them with new cultural relevance, and forged partnerships with global powerhouses such as Google and Netflix—reestablishing EBONY as a premier media brand for a new generation.
At Sweet July, Ayesha Curry’s lifestyle venture, Bobo shaped the editorial vision, launched the quarterly magazine in partnership with Dotdash Meredith, and helped define its product and e-commerce strategy. As Fashion Director at Essence, she expanded the brand’s global fashion footprint and spearheaded the Fashion House experiential series in New York, New Orleans, and Lagos, spotlighting Black creatives and amplifying underrepresented voices.
Building on her prolific creative foundation, Bobo has become a global leader in executive dialogue and corporate transformation. Currently, as Global Head of Content Strategy at Transform, she architects content ecosystems and thought-leadership experiences that convene the world’s most influential business leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors shaping the future of people and work across six continents. Previously, as Vice President of Content at Shoptalk, she produced large-scale conferences for more than 10,000 senior executives across retail and technology—driving creativity, connection, and innovation on a global stage.
Her cultural impact spans screen and stage, with appearances in the Vogue x YouTube Originals docuseries, Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, OWN’s Time of Essence, and The Sound She Saw, which spotlights contemporary Black women photographers. Beyond her creative work, Bobo advances equity and representation in the arts through her involvement with the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Social Justice Center, RAISEfashion, and Latimer.ai.
Widely regarded as one of the most versatile and forward-thinking leaders in modern media, her contributions have been recognized by the White House and the Library of Congress, where her story is preserved in The HistoryMakers Digital Archive—a landmark collection of oral histories honoring the most influential voices shaping Black history and culture.