Crissle West is a media personality and writer currently based in Harlem. She is co-host of the critically acclaimed comedy podcast The Read, which she and her friend Kid Fury have hosted since 2013. Crissle was raised in Oklahoma and moved to NYC in 2012 in search of neighbors who believe in both gun and birth control. She now spends her days in the city fighting gentrification and avoiding Trump Tower. Crissle once drunkenly Facetimed with Lin-Manuel Miranda and considers being featured on Beyoncé’s Facebook to be her greatest achievement.