Hey there! I’m Franchesca, but most people online know me as Chescaleigh. I’m originally from West Palm Beach, Florida (where your grandparents live) and I’m a writer, actress and video blogger based out of New York City. You might know me as a former writer and contributor for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central, but these days you can find me online and as the host of the MTV News web series Decoded. My “claim to fame” came in January 2012 when my video, “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls” (SWGSTBG) went viral. It garnered over 1.5 million views in 24 hours and 5 million views in just 5 days. It also made a lot of white girls cry. SWGSTBG currently has 11 million views and has been featured on MSNBC, ABC, The Daily Mail and the Anderson Cooper talk show, to name a few. And someone even wrote a 20 page graduate dissertation on it! My two Youtube channels have over 250k subscribers combined and over 29 million views. My Chescaleigh comedy channel is a mix of song parodies, impersonations and original characters along with socially conscious and topical comedy sketches. While my Chescalocs channel focuses on beauty, natural hair care and styling. My videos and I have been featured on MTV, The New York Times, NPR, Ebony Magazine and The BBC.

Franchesca Ramsey (born November 29, 1983) is an American social media personality, presenter, activist, actor, author, producer, and screenwriter. Ramsey initally started out as a YouTuber known as Chescaleigh, and in 2012, her video "Shit White Girls Say...to Black Girls" went viral. With it came a lot of postive media attention, as well as online harassment. Ramsey became an advocate for people faced online harassment, as well as speaking out on social issues, which led her to be the host, writer, and executive producer of MTV's online show Decoded. Ramsey also hosted podcast titled Last Name Basis with her then-husband Patrick Kondas from 2015 to 2019. She has written for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and is co-producer and writer for the iCarly 2021 reboot. In 2020, she had a recurring role in Superstore. Ramsey came out as bisexual on National Coming Out in 2020.