Phaedra Parks

Some Lesser Known Facts About Phaedra Parks

• She worked in GEICO, an insurance company from 1990 to 2000.

• From 1998 to 2000, she worked as an attorney at Bridges Ormand & Faenza.

• In January 2000, she started a boutique law firm, The Parks Group.

• She specialises in entertainment law, intellectual property law, and criminal defence.

• Throughout her career, she has represented multiple public figures including singer and dancer, Bobby Brown.

• She has served as the president of the Gate City Bar Association and on the advisory board of the American Bar Association.

• She is a member of Atlanta’s ‘Lawyers Club.’

• In 2009, she became a part of the Leadership Atlanta class, a community leadership program.

• She has worked as a motivational speaker and has travelled nationally and internationally to speak on various topics including business, law, personal growth, and achieving success.

• She also works as a funeral planner and director

• Parks has worked as an on-air legal analyst for several media outlets such as NBC, Fox, CNN, truTV, EXTRA and Entertainment Tonight.

• She is often featured as a guest speaker on radio shows including, Atlanta’s Hot 107.9, V-103, Newstalk 680, and WAOK.

• As a social activist, she often advocates for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. She has also visited several American cities including Selma, Alabama, Flint, and Michigan to advocate against social injustices.

• She has worked with communities across America advocating equality and the importance of positive male role models in the lives of Black boys through her nonprofit organization, Phaedra Foundation.

• In 2019, she held a camp as part of her foundation to help the youth that was affected by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

  

• She has also worked with the families of the victims of violence and unjustified killings including Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown.

• She often works with the members of Congress to help them implement initiatives that provide opportunities for at-risk youth.

• She published her book, ‘Secrets of the Southern Belle: How to Be Nice, Work Hard, Look Pretty, Have Fun and Never Have an Off Moment’ on 12 November 2013.

  

• In 2014, her husband Apollo Nida was convicted of committing mail, wire, and bank fraud for 8 years, leading to their divorce. She has claimed to have not known about his criminal activity.

• To help cover the tuition fees of first-generation minority law students, she created the Phaedra Scholars Scholarship in 2016.

• She is a board member of various organisations, including the Junior League of Atlanta, Atlanta Children’s Shelter, American Heart Association, and the American Bar Association’s Advisory Board.

• A new unscripted series focused only on Phaedra Parks and titled, ‘Rich People’s Problems’ was announced by the channel executives at Bravo after she was fired from the show, ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ in 2017, but the show was never released.

• She has appeared in several reality TV shows, including ‘Braxton Family Values’ (2018), ‘ The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip’ (2022-2024), and ‘The Traitors’ (2024).

  

• She appeared with her then-boyfriend, Medina Islam in the premiere of the second season of the reality TV show, ‘Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition’ in 2020.

  

• In 2021, she took to Instagram to reveal that her car was broken into by a couple of thieves in Atlanta.

   

• She further claimed that the thieves stole her gold glitter backpack which had a camera she had used to click pictures of her son’s graduation.

• She started the Safe Place Scholarship for law students in 2023 to help them with housing disparities and homelessness.

• In July 2024, she announced her return to the 16th season of the American reality TV series, ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’ as the main cast.

• In September 2024, she participated as one of the celebrities competing in season 33 of ‘Dancing with the Stars.’

  

Phaedra Parks standing beside the broken window of her car