AJ Mendez is the New York Times Bestselling author of Crazy is My Superpower, a memoir chronicling her journey from childhood homelessness to empowered WWE champion and mental health advocate. She is the cofounder of Scrappy Heart Productions and cowriter of Netflix’s Blade of the 47 Ronin, which reached #3 on the streamer’s Top 10 Movies List. AJ served as Executive Producer and color commentator of ViacomCBS series WOW. As an actor, she appears in Netflix series Heels, horror feature Rabid, short film Like the Tide, and comedy Sacramento opposite Kristen Stewart and Michael Cera. Her recent headline-making return to WWE garnered 1 million social views in 15 minutes and 130 million views in 24 hours.
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AJ’s writing is featured in DC Comics’ Wonder Woman and The Black List’s Latinx TV List. She is the cowriter of original graphic novel Day of the Dead Girl, IDW comic book series Dungeons & Dragons: At the Spine of the World and GLOW: Versus the Babyface.
AJ has served as an ambassador for the ASPCA, Girls Make Games, and mental health non-profits NAMI and The Jed Foundation, performing keynote speeches across the country. She has 6 million engaged followers across Instagram and X @TheAJMendez.
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Scrappy Heart Productions was co-founded by American Latina storytellers AJ Mendez and Aimee Garcia to develop diverse stories with universal themes, making underdogs the stars of their own stories across all media.
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