International model, Ojy Okpe is a Nigerian. The attractive mother and model rose to the international modelling scene after the Face of Africa competition where she was a finalist. Ojy Okpe, born in the South Eastern part of Nigeria is of Yoruba ethnicity. She was born April 23, 1981.

She completed he rudimentary education at Queensland Academy Lagos State, Nigeria where she obtained her First School Leaving Certificate in the early 90s. Owing to her brilliance, she was able to complete her secondary education at Rainbow college where she acquired her West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate in the mid 90s. She completed her university degree as a scholarship student at Saint John's University with a BSc. in Communication and a minor in Film Production in 2006.

Ojy^[6] was discovered at the age of 17 by talent scout Jan Malan who entered her into the face of Africa competition.

She appeared on the stage of modelling to get huge notices and praise after the face of Africa competition where she turned out to be a finalist.

Ojy moved to South Africa to pursue work with a contract from Storm Model Management, but could not escape the attention of the fashion industry. Within weeks of modelling sher appeared on the pages of Elle, Cosmopolitan, Drum, True Love and strutted the runway for SA fashion week.

With vast opportunities at her disposal beckoning, she moved to New York and soon became the creative influence for legendary swimwear brand,Gottex. She showcases their swimwear line every season at the New York Mercedes Benz fashion week. She has worked for virtually every designer, doing trunk shows for Oscar by Oscar de la Renta, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace, Moschino, Ralph Lauren and Dolce & Gabbana.

During her modelling career living in New York City, she completed her university degree as a scholarship student at St. Johns University with a BSc. in Communications and a minor in Film Production.

Upon completing her college degree in 2006, Ojy went establisged her foundation, working with the Salvation Army corps and the Red Cross, she has built up skills that would help her maximise her passion for under-privileged children.

Ojy founded the campaign for L’Oreal’s Mizani, she not only was the face of the brand, but she also developed distribution channels for the products in her country In 2007.

Ojy Okpe, since stumbled on by model hunter Jan Malan at age 17 has adorned the pages of Cosmopolitan, Elle, True love magazines amongst other foreign magazine.

The model is signed to Storm Model Management. She has walked major runways and worked with almost every designer fron Jean Paul Gaultier, Oscar by Oscar de la Renta and many more.

Lately, motivated by her passion for film ever since her first day on a Hollywood production working on multi-million dollar films such as The The Devil Wears Prada (film), Spider-Man 3, and Confessions of a Shopaholic (film), Ojy created THIRD MAINLAND PRODUCTIONS.

Using her global awareness and experience to move her career forward, this film production company hopes to expand and relaunch her as a filmmaker.

Not withstanding the challenge of being a person of color in New York and how much it limits the potential of many, in order to get ahead she had to create a job or an avenue that no one else have done to stand out.

Through hard work and resilience, she is able to stand out from the crowd.

It is rare to find a Model turned Filmmaker and that is what she used to my advantage^[5].

Aside from her modeling job, motherhood, film maker, Ojy is also an executive with ^[9] Arise TV^[7] and actually began working at Arise News in September 2013, working as a Field Producer for the Networks entertainment channel Arise 360, she produced Mini Bio documentaries on Artists including Grammy Award winner Ciara and Janelle Monáe discography.

Upon profiling celebrity interviews with actress Susan Sarandon, Sarah Jessica Parker, supermodel Iman and Naomi Campbell, Singer Idina Mendel, to name a few, she quickly became the Assistant Director of Features and Special Programming with the launch of the Networks Documentary Unit “Arise Special”.

The documentary unit within nine months produced ground breaking documentaries including“Game Changers”: How the Harlem Globetrotters Battled Racism” – which just won an Emmy Award at The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences 58th Annual New York Emmy Awards.

The documentary takes a historical look at the early days of professional basketball and how the Harlem Globetrotters not only dealt with racism, but also helped change the world of sports.