Sacha Jenkins (born 1971) is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures. While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest 'zines solely dedicated to "graffiti" art. In 1994, Jenkins co-founded ego trip magazine. In 2007, he created the competition reality program "ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show," which was carried by VH1. Currently, Jenkins is the creative director of Mass Appeal magazine.
Sacha Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 22, 1971. The Jenkins family lived in Silver Spring, Maryland until Sacha Jenkins was seven years old. After his parents' separation, Jenkins' father, Horace Byrd Jenkins III, moved to Harlem. (Horace was a professor of communications at Howard University.) Jenkins, along with his mother, Monart, and his sister, Dominique, moved to Queens, New York in 1977.
Horace Byrd Jenkins III won Emmy Awards for his contributions to the TV programs "The Advocates," "Sesame Street," and "30 Minutes" (CBS TV series), and was a pioneer in the TV magazine format with the program "Black Journal." Under the name Horace Jenkins, he wrote and directed the feature film Cane River (1982). That same year Horace died of a heart attack.

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