Tyra Banks

As one of the most iconic models in the history of fashion, Tyra Banks has collected a long list of “firsts” while breaking barriers in the industry. She is a Harvard Business School alum, taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business for three years, is a two-time Emmy Award winner, and has twice been named to TIME’s list of the world’s most influential people.

Banks is the author of Tyra’s Beauty Inside & Out, the New York Times bestselling fantasy novel Modelland, and Perfect Is Boring, which she co-wrote with her mother, Carolyn London.

A visionary entrepreneur and creative powerhouse, Banks is a television and film producer and also the founder of SMiZE & DREAM, where ice cream meets entertainment, cinematic storytelling, imaginative flavors, unexpected innovation, and dream fulfillment. Inspired by and dedicated to her mother, the company brings Banks’s love of world-building to life in a way you can actually taste.