Farai Chideya Biography

Farai Chideya brings the human experience to life in all media forms. Her ability to see around corners has led her to consistently engage in new technologies. For example she launched her first blog Pop and Politics in 1995 and has covered topics well before they became mainstream such as in her 1999 book The Color of Our Future which saw the evolution towards a majority-minority America long before it made the cover of Time.
In the past she has been an award-winning reporter for Newsweek; a political analyst for CNN; a reporter and guest host for ABC News; and a host for NPR. All the while she has produced digital content and both nonfiction and fiction books. She is a graduate of Harvard University and returned there as a Spring 2012 fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government.
After a career that led her through adventures such as flying on Air Force One being stalked by the secret police in Zimbabwe and covering every U.S. election since 1996 Chideya has become truly her own media consulting and entrepreneurial brand. She is currently a contributor to New York Public Radio and a frequent guest on such cable channels asMSNBC. She is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute where she teaches radio. She recently completed a book co-authored with Vivek Wadhwa on women in the technology industry called Innovating Women and is finishing a new book The Right Work advising Americans how to proactively deal with job volatility and the shift from linear to episodic careers. Chideya also serves as an advisor to several nonprofits and for-profit startups.

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