A former newspaper reporter, Aydrea Walden is currently a Staff Writer for Disney Jr., and has also written for Nickelodeon, Highlander Films, Now Write! Screenwriting Book Series, Makers Studios, The Walt Disney Company, and Amazon. She recently worked as a Development Executive at NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises where she helped create programming for the award-winning DreamWorksTV YouTube channel; and developed long form kids and family programming.

Aydrea is the creator and star of the Webby-nominated series, Black Girl in a Big Dress. She is a multiple Moth StorySLAM winner, and recently completed the East Coast premiere of her one-woman show, The Oreo Experience: A Total Whitey Trapped in a Black Chick's Body, based on the blog of the same name, which has been featured in GOOD Magazine and Jezebel.com