TV Big Mouth Abiola Abrams is a writer, motivational cheerleader (speaker) and social issues filmmaker whose shorts and docs about "Finding Your Joy" have been shown in galleries, festivals and museums in Germany, West Africa, South America and throughout the US. Abiola Abrams has given the keynote address “Beyond Overcoming Adversity” for Women’s History Month and Black History Month at schools like New York University, The New School for Social Research and Washington State University. 

For two years she hosted social issues film showcase The Best Shorts on BET J and she also hosted the fun, fearless issues show Chat Zone for HBO. For almost 10 years Abiola Abrams has given talks, written about and presented workshops on empowering women with her young feminist movement The Goddess Factory. Her award-winning films explore issues such as relationship violence (Ophelia’s Opera), mental illness (Knives in My Throat) and sexual empowerment (Afrodite Superstar). Abiola Abrams is the creator of the Until the Violence Stops Film Festival at the Museum of the City of New York and Museum of TV and Radio for Eve Ensler’s VDay organization to stop violence against women and girls, and has participated in panels and workshops with similar organizations such as Hip Hop 4 Health.  

Abiola's debut novel Dare, published by Simon and Schuster was called an “empowering hip hop feminist tale,” was based on the classic German Fable Faust, and will be featured in the curriculum at The New School. Her advice column ran in RollingOut Urbanstyle weekly, a national African American newspaper. Abiola’s writing is published in the Eve Ensler activist anthology A Poem, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer alongside the original writings of Maya Angelou and Alice Walker. In 2009 she was honored by NYC VDay with her motivational writings were performed by actors. Her documentary Knives in My Throat also recently won awards from the Pan African Film Festival and Reel Sisters. Her workshops with incest victims at Casa Attabex Ache in The Bronx resulted in her being awarded as one their Women of The Year. 

Abiola’s work as "the goddess passionista" has been written about in Paper Magazine, Self Magazine, Essence Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine, RollingOut Urbanstyle Weekly, Esquire, Time Out NY, Upscale Magazine, Uptown Magazine, Nerve, Good Housekeeping, Today's Black Woman, Carib News, the Amsterdam News, The Village Voice, Black Enterprise Magazine and The Observer. 

Abiola Abrams has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she studied sociology, theater and creative writing; and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her Master’s Degree thesis analyzed the harnessing the power of pop culture to motivate and inspire through television, books, and film. In 2009 Drew Barrymore cast  Abiola Abrams as a co-star on her VH1 series Tough Love as “a woman who empowers others and has everything together except her love life.”