Mara Brock Akil Net Worth

In 1998 she graduated from Raytown South High School, and then she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University where she was a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She has been married to television director Salim Akil since 1999; they have two sons and are practicing Sufi Muslims. Mara is the sister of American television and film actress Kara Brock. Akil has won the 2005 BET Comedy Award for Outstanding Writing for the Comedy Series Girlfriends, and she was nominated in 2007 for the NAACP Image Award also for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series Girlfriend. One of her most recent accomplishments was in 2009 where she became a consulting producer and writer for the ABC suburban sitcom Cougar Town.