Elena Oumano is a professor of communications at BMCC of the City University of New York. As a music and film journalist, her work has been published in the "New York Times", "Spin", the "Nation", the "Village Voice", "Amazon.com", "Interview magazine", "L.A. Weekly", the "L.A. Times", "Image" magazine of the "San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle", "GRAMMY magazine", and other media outlets. She is also the author, coauthor, or ghost writer of more than twenty books.