Farai Chideya

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Farai Chideya
Born (1969-07-27) July 27, 1969 (age 54)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist, radio personality, author

Farai Chideya (/fəˈraɪ tʃɪˈdeɪ.ə/;[1] born July 27, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American novelist, multimedia journalist, and radio host. She produced and hosted Pop and Politics with Farai Chideya, a series of radio specials on politics for 15 years. She is the creator and host of the podcast Our Body Politic, which launched in September 2020.

Additionally, since 2012 Chideya has held the position of distinguished writer in residence at the

Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University
, where she teaches courses in radio production and media economics.

Early life

Chideya was born on July 27, 1969, in Baltimore, Maryland.[citation needed] Her mother is from Baltimore, and her father is from Zimbabwe.[2]

Chideya holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from

magna cum laude.[3]

Career

Chideya was a member of the improv comedy troupe

University of California at Berkeley and a visiting professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California
, in addition to her current position as distinguished writer in residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

Chideya is also the founder and president of one of the earliest pop culture blogs in the US, PopandPolitics.com.

BET and HBO. She began working as a senior writer for the website FiveThirtyEight in 2015, covering issues including the 2016 presidential election.[5]

In May 2009,

9/11 and is rooted in the ethos of the Black rock movement and the New York club scene. Chideya is also part of The Finish Party writing group,[6]
and is the author of three non-fiction books about race and politics: Don't Believe the Hype, The Color of Our Future and Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters.

Prior to 2009, Chideya was the host of the

Chicago Tribune Syndicate, The American Prospect, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vibe, Spin and Glamour
.

From 2014 to 2015, Chideya produced and hosted One with Farai, a podcast for

Alec Ross
.

Chideya is the recipient of a Foreign Press Center fellowship that took her to Japan in 2002, a Knight Foundation fellowship based at Stanford University in 2001 and a Freedom Forum Media Studies Center fellowship in 1996.

She has won various awards for her work: a special award from the Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for AIDS reporting in 2008; an Enterprise reporting award from the

GLAAD Award from Spin
in 1995; and a National Education Reporting Award and an EdPress award for education reporting done for Newsweek in 1994.

Her speeches on civic engagement, electoral politics, digital media, hip-hop, race and politics have taken her around the world—from India to South Africa to Alaska.

University of Alaska at Fairbanks, Wellesley College, Chicago State University, Harvard University and Smith College
are just some of the places where she has spoken.

Chideya served as a judge for the 2023 American Mosaic Journalism Prize.[7]

Bibliography

  • Don't Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans[8] (1995)
  • The Color of Our Future[9] (1999)
  • Trust: Reaching the 100 Million Missing Voters[10] (2004)
  • Kiss the Sky[11] (2009)
  • Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology[12] (2014)
  • The Episodic Career: How to Thrive at Work in the Age of Disruption[13] (2016)

References

  1. ^ YouTube Archived March 3, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Farai Chideya". Baltimore City Paper. n.d. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  3. ^ "Farai Chideya | Public Radio International". www.pri.org. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  4. ^ "Farai Chideya | Politics, media, arts, and technology". Popandpolitics.com. n.d. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  5. ^ "Who Does Scott Walker's Exit Help?" FiveThirtyEight, September 24, 2015.
  6. ^ "The Finish Party". The Finish Party. n.d. Archived from the original on January 3, 2014. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  7. ^ Brod, Maya (February 15, 2023). "Two Freelance Journalists Awarded $100,000 Each for Groundbreaking Coverage, Attention to America's Underrepresented Communities" (PDF). Heising-Simons Foundation. Retrieved March 9, 2023.
  8. ISBN 9780452270961
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  9. ISBN 9780688175801
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  10. ISBN 9781932360264
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  11. ^ Davidson, Carli (n.d.). "Kiss the Sky by Farai Chideya". Powells.com. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
  12. ISBN 9781626814226
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  13. ISBN 9781476751504
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