Carla Banks Waddles, a Detroit native, studied journalism at Northwestern’s Medill School before pursuing her passion for storytelling in film and television. After earning her MFA in Screenwriting from USC, she launched a 20+ year career writing and producing hit shows like That’s So Raven, Half & Half, Hit The Floor, and Good Girls. She now serves as Showrunner and Executive Producer of Bel-Air, for which she won an NAACP Award for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. She founded Babycakes Productions, Inc. as a vehicle for her creative projects, now being developed under her overall deal at Universal Television.