Janelle Monáe

N A YEAR WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY FACET OF LIFE IS GOING THROUGH a massive shift, musician and actor Janelle Monáe is front and center as a voice for that change, especially in her new film available on-demand on major and winner of on an Oscar for Best Picture. She says she’s grateful those films were her debut. “They had a very specific perspective around the Black experience and about broadening who we can be as a people.” After “community and being a good citizen is what I’m focused on next,” says Monáe.