Anike Bay

Anike Bay - 'also known as' Iris Montgomery-Ilori - is the author of "Little Iris' First Day of School," "Little Iris' First-Grade Field Trip to Jet Magazine," "Girls Like Us! Season 1, 2,3 and 4." In addition, She's also a film festival 54x's nominated and Invited award-winning director, writer, and producer of two hit movies and two music videos entitled "Girls Like Us" (2013);Girls Like Us 2.0! The Hustle! The Game!" (2014);Woman To Woman!" by Complete Love"(2013) and ,"All They Know Is Shoot," song by Tripp Sticc Featuring Ricky Moncler (2016). Any who,Anike grew up on the South Side of Chicago, in the Englewood community, which is better known as ,"Little Beirut,The Point Of No Return and as Spike Lee put it in his movie "Chirac!" As a young girl Anike attended Charles W. Earle School, from Head Start through eighth grade then she went on to attend Mather High School on the North Side for 1½ years before transferring to, and graduating from William Rainey Harper High School. She also attended Eastern Illinois University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and now she's currently pursuing her MPA of Independent Filming and Digital Imaging at Governors State University South of Chicago when time permits. Anike's a previous board member of the Illinois Safe School Alliance Board, and a prior Gospel Talk Show Host on WGBX AM1570,but, she's taken a leave of absent from both to work on completing two books, entitled "Girls Like Us! and Season 5 and She Had Me At Hello, Too!" Also Anike is working on two screenplays entitled, "Tell It To Jesus, and She Had Me At Hello." Now, although she has a strong desire to continue writing both children's books and other kinds of novellas and screenplays for people to read, she admits she's more interested in becoming the number-one filmmaker in the world as well as winning an Academy Award and NAACP Award for Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Music Video and for Best Picture! Last but not least, Anike Bay's grandfather has Irish ancestry (Engram/Ingram) and Black Foot Indians ancestry and her grandma Suki, grandma Suki Johnson, and grandma Susie Engram all have Cherokee Indian ancestry.